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In relation to Indiana and the United States, Gary shows in 

 the age group 6 to 14 years of age a much smaller proportion of 

 native born white of native parentage, a larger proportion of 

 native born white of foreign or mixed parentage, a very much 

 larger proportion of foreign born white, aid about the same 

 proportion of negroes. In the same fashion in the group, males 

 21 years of age and over, the Gary population shows an abnor- 

 mally low proportion of native white of native parentage, a low 

 proportion of native born white of foreign or mixed parentage, 

 a higher proportion of foreign born whites, and a smaller pro- 

 portion of negroes. These facts bear out the conclusions above 

 as to the effect of large numbers of immigrants and the newness 

 of the city on the proportions of age groups. 



Table 8 shows the proportion of those attending school in 

 Gary, in Indiana, in the United States in 1910 in the age groups 

 a, 6 to 14, and b, 6 to 20 years. In the age group 6 to 14 years 



8a. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN THE AGE GROUP 6 TO 14 YEARS 

 IN GARY, IN INDIANA, AND IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1910 23 



Gary 



82 . 4 per cent 

 88 . 2 per cent 

 81 . 4 per cent 





United States 





8b. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN THE GROUP 6 TO 20 YEARS OF 

 AGE IN GARY, IN INDIANA, AND IN THE UNITED 

 STATES IN 1910 





49 . 2 per cent 

 66 . 0 per cent 



62 . 3 per cent 



Indiana 







Gary shows a little higher proportion of school attendance than 

 the United States, and somewhat lower than Indiana. Since 

 this age group is that affected by the attendance law in Indiana, 

 the figures here are of little significance in indicating the attitude 

 of the Gary population toward school attendance. It is in the 

 age group 14 and 16 up to 20 in which children are not required 

 by the Indiana law to go to school that significant results may be 

 found. Here it will be seen that a much lower proportion attend 

 school in Gary than in either Indiana or the United States because 

 of the number of immigrant children of the common laboring 



23U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, p. 1098; Vol. II, pp. 542, 568. 



