Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-19
BIRTH RATE HIGH
| IN FARM SECTIONS
Exceeds That OF Cities by 81
/ Per Cent, Official Fig
Ia ureS Reveal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 1S.-The birth
rate in the farming areas of the
United States is 50 per cent greater
than in the cities and "a per cent
greater than in the villages, according
10 report published today by the In
stitute of Social and Religious Re
search of this city, which gives, under
the title "A Census Analysis of Amer
lean Villages" the results of the first
tabulation ever made of the United
States census data for villages. BY vii
lagos is meant communities having
ing from $50 to $500 inhabitants.
The figures in the report show that
at the last census period the average
number of children to each 100 mar
RED women between Is and 40 years
of age in villages was 157, as COM
pared with 12S in the cities, while in
the distinctly farming areas the aver
age number was 1876.
Men Outnumber Women.
The population in the villages is
shown by the report to be very diff
ferent in its composition and char
acteristics from the population in the
strictly farming areas The ANALYSIS
shows, for example, that in the coun:
try's farm population there are 1O9
men to every 100 women, while in the
villages there are only 50 men to each
100 women.
Basing his criticism on these and
other differences. DIR. c. Luther Fry,
the author of the report, questions the
validity of the census procedure.
which makes no distinction between
the data for villages and data for the
rest of the rural population.
The report states that the census
data for 1.75 per cent of the 1925
villages in the United States having
populations between $50 and $500
were tabulated and analyzed in the
study, and that this sample was care
fully selected to include representa-
tive villages in the Middle Atlantic
region, the Middle West, the South
and the Far West.
Older Persons Numerous.
According to the report. the vii
lagos have a disproportionately large
number of old people as compared
with the cities and the farming areas
OF the men in the villages 28.5 per
cent are 40 years of age or older
while for the United States as
whole, 21.5 per cent of the men are
in that age group. Of the women in
the villages, PA per cent are 45, or
have passed that age. while this is
true of only 20 per cent of the women
of the entire country.
The different regions themselves
also show great differences in the CON-
position of the population. In the
Middle Atlantic region, for example,
34.S per cent of the village men and
1861 per cent of the village women
have reached or passed the 45th year
In the villages of the Middle West,
31.1 per cent of the men and 294
per cent of the women are 40 or older;
in those of the Far West, 27.3 per
cent of the men and 23.S per cent of
the women; in those of the South, 81
per cent of the men and 1914 per cent
of the women.
The figures show that for every 100
women the Middle Atlantic villages
have only 8S men; the villages of the
Middle West, 95 men; those of the
Far West, los men; those of the
South, "a men.
In the marital status of villagers,
regional differences are marked. In
the Far West, which is the one area