A Social Study of the Russian German 35 
Families Individuals 
North Settlements: se ce ciclepaei crac es 425 2,246 
Soutin Semlomene ssonacooboccevoacteoc 631 3,148 
@utside thes Settlenventsieceq-- oon. - 132 700 
EIN Gitel Meath sea) casrets eaten Pees ners te coin eee 1,188 6,100 
The average number of persons per Russian German family is 
5.14 compared with 4.2 for the city of London and 4.5 for the 
United States as a whole.?® In this respect it approaches more 
nearly the eighteenth, than the twentieth, century type of family 
for in 1790 the average size of the white family in the United 
States was 5.8 persons.*° 
The size of the family as it actually exists in the Russian Ger- 
man settlements, 7. e., including all those living in one family group 
without regard to relationship or lack of it, is shown in the follow- 
ing table :*+ 
TaBLE V. SizE oF FAMILIES 
Number of Persons Contained in Each Family 
Families j 
I 2 | 3 | 4 5 6 | 7 8 9 70) f} gery || ae 
3 UO) | UOw | AAS | USH || BOR | LAB | 77S | AI| 19 | 6 | I 
Per cent....... .3 | 10.6 115.5 | 16.0 RE | wR wwe Nos | A hae oS ox 
The four-member family is the most largely represented, closely 
followed by the six-, three-, and five-member groups. Compared 
with the same type of family for the United States as a whole,*” 
a significant difference appears in the very small number of 
was secured. There are about 400 persons besides these, not here rep- 
resented. 
29 Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Abstract with supple- 
ment for Nebraska, 259, 262. These comparisons must be used cautiously, 
since the bases are not always the same. 
30 See Rossiter, “ The Significance of the Decreasing Proportion of Chil- 
dren,” in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 
XXXIV, No. 1, 71-80. 
31 These figures are based only on the families within the settlement area 
where conditions are typically Russian German. 
32 The statistics for the United States are found in Mayo-Smith, Sta- 
tistics and Sociology, 186. 
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