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TABLE 1.-Total population, school population, and adult male population-Continued.

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a The estimates of the total and the school population for 1891 are made on the basis of the porcentages of 1890, as no new determinations of these quantities will be made until 1900. b In 1890 (U. S. Census).

POPULATION AND SCHOOL POPULATION.

Although the census of 1890 has gathered the material for determining the number of children of each year of age in the several States, the results have not been published at the date of preparation of this report.

A preliminary census bulletin has been issued, however, giving for each State the number of persons 5 to 18 years of age in 1890; this age has been considered by the Census Office for several decades past as the "school age," and has been, therefore, adopted in this report as furnishing the only enumeration of children that is uniform in all the States as regards the ages included, and extending from 1870 to the present time.

The number of persons of each individual year of age was not published in the census reports until 1880.

The figures in column 3 of the preceding table are based on those of the census bulletin referred to, but have been reduced in most cases to the date 1891, as have also been those of the total population in column 2.

The total population of the United States for the year under consideration (1890-'91 for most of the States) is found to have been 63,521,196.

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This table has the defect of the original census table (of 1880) upon which it is based. The tendency of parents or other persons who give information to census enumerators is, through ignorance or negligence, to give children's ages roughly or by guesswork, in even numbers rather than odd, and especially in round numbers. Hence we find more children of 6 years of age than either 5 or 7, and so with 8,10, 12, etc., the number of 10 years of age being particularly large.1

The summaries of the number of children from 6 to 10, 10 to 14, and 14 to 18 years, in the foregoing table, give approximately the number of children of age suitable for primary, grammar, and secondary instruction, respectively.

This defect is so magnified in the ages of older people in the census of 1880, that 188,752 are given as 59 years old, 427,937 as 60, and 148,731 as 61.

TABLE 2.-School enrollment and its relation to the number of children 5 to 18 years of age.

1870-71 ΤΟ 1890-91.

ters, excluding duplicates.

State or Territory.

1879-80.

1889-90.

1890-91.

Whole number of children enrolled on the school regis Gain or loss the last year Number of pupils enrolled for every 100

1870-71.

increase or 1870-71. 1879-80. 1889-90. 1890-91.
decrease.

reported.

children 5 to 18 years of age.

Absolute
increase or
decrease.

Percent of

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7,561,582

2,743, 344
603, 619
767,839

3, 300, 660 146, 120

1, 242, 811 1, 371, 975

4,033, 828

288, 546

9,867, 505

12, 722, 581

12,966, 061

I... h342,994

Per cent. I.... 2.72

61.45

65.50

68.61

68.95

2, 930, 345

3, 112, 622

3, 138, 064

I... α32,073

I.... 1.03

77.95

75.17

70.44

70.00

1,785, 486

1,815, 724

I... α68,480

I.... 3,92

30.51

50.74

59.22

59.47

2,293, 579

2, 409, 153

I...a148,625

I.... 6.57

34.17

46.43

60.14

62.44

5,015, 217

5,047, 083

I... a39,560

Ι....

79

76.87

75.84

76.46

76.05

515, 677

556, 037

I... α54, 256

Ι....10.81

54.77

64.96

70.01

72.33

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a Aggregate increase for one year, not the increase over 1889-90, which will not be known until the reports for 1890-91 are all in.

c Number of pupils attending two weeks or more. d Includes only pupils of legal school age (5 to 20).

824, 614

937,310

1,020, 522

1,026, 667

I...

6,145 I.... .60

76,35

74.37

69.53

68.52

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Western Division

North Atlantic Division:

Maine ....

New Hampshire c
Vermont.......

Massachusetts..

Rhode Island....

Connecticut

New York..

New Jersey

Delaware

Maryland.

Florida

Pennsylvania....

South Atlantic Division:

District of Columbia..

Virginia.....

West Virginia.

North Carolina

South Carolina.

Georgia..

b Estimated.

20,058

27,823

31,434

f31, 434 D..

115, 683

162, 431

15, 157

26,439

184, 251
36,906

189,214 Ι...

38,386 I...

131, 088

220,736

342, 269

342, 720

Ι...

76, 999

142, 850

193,064

198,376 Ι...

b115,000

252,612

322, 533

330,719 Ι...

66,056

134, 072

201, 260

209,559 1...

49,578

236,533

381,298

14,000

39, 315

92, 472

04,019 Ι...

1,547 I... 1.67

21.21

44.46

71.10

69.65

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TABLE 2.-School enrollment and its relation to the number of children 5 to 18 years of age-Continued

State or Territory.

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1

Whole number of children enrolled on the school regis- Gain or loss the last year Number of pupils enrolled for every 100

1870-71.

1879-80.

1889-90.

1890-91.

Absolute increase or decrease.

Per cent of

increase or 1870-71. 1879-80. 1889-90. 1890-01. decrease.

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

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ters, excluding duplicates.

reported.

children 5 to 18 years of age.

Kentucky

Tennessee

Alabama...

Mississippi

a178, 457

a276,000

399, 660

426, 487 I... 26,827

I.... 6.71

65.64

68.99

6140,000

300, 217

447,950

483,337 Ι... 35,387

I... 7.90

32.00

58.21

74.06

78.29

141, 312

179, 490

301, 615

c301,615 I... 31,411

I....11.62

40.36

42.60

55.83

c55.83

117,000

236, 654

334, 158

327,855 D.. 6,303

D... 1.89

40.60

61.29

70.62

68.38

Louisiana...

57,639

77,642

120, 253

130,709 I... 10,456

I.... 8.69

24.78

25.87

31.58

33.73

Texas......

63, 504

b220,000

466, 872

516,079 I... 49,207

I....10.54

21.00

42.40

59.50

63.52

Arkansas.

69,927

81,972

223, 071

c223, 071 I...

1,640

Ι.... .74

40.29

30.81

55.41

c55.41

North Central Division:

Ohio...

719,372

729, 499

797,439

d754, 869 D.. 42,570

D... 5.34

84.04

76.69

76.54

d71.97

Indiana

450,057

511, 283

512, 955

c512,955 D..

10, 192

D... 1.95

78.64

82.39

79 21

c79.21

Illinois

672,787

704,041

778, 319

799,058 Ι... 20,739

I... 2.66

81.01

74.61

71.97

72.86

Michigan...

202, 466

362, 556

427,032

446, 024 Ι...

18,992 I.. 4.45

79.66

-78.08

73.44

75.29

Wisconsin

255,285

299, 457

351,723

359, 257

Ι... 7,534 I. 2.14

73.92

73.78

69.77

69.60

Minnesota.

113, 983

180, 248

280, 960

c280,960

I...

7,146 I.... 2.61

75.92

75.87

74.59

c74.59

Iowa..

341,938

426,057

493,267

503, 755

I...

10,488 I. 2.13

84.44

83.52

85.51

86.33

Missouri..

330,070

482, 986

620,314

639,729

I... 19,415 I.. 3.13

56.03

68.85

74, 43

75.15

North Dakota

Nebraska......

23,265

92,549

240, 300

247,320

Ι... 7,020 I.... 2.92

58.79

68.48

75.36

74.23

Kansas

89,777

231, 434

399, 322

389, 570

D..

9,752 D... 2.44

74.22

73.23

88.56

87.66

Western Division:

Montana...

6450

4,270

16,980

Wyoming.
Colorado....
New Mexico.
Arizona

Utah

Nevada....
Idaho.

Washington

Oregon

California

1,657

2,907

7,052

4,357

22, 119

65, 490

c65, 490

61,320

4,755

18,315

22,599

4,212

7,989

c7,989

16,992

24, 326

37,279

46, 794

Ι...

9,515

Ι....25.52

53.36

50.61

55.26

65.25

3, 106

65,000

21,000

a Highest number enrolled.

Estimated.

c In 1889-90.

d Incomplete reports.

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