A comparison of the proportion of females and children in the "old" and the "new" immigration with that in the Jewish shows that the Jewish immigration has proportionately almost twice as many females as the "new" immigration (Jews excepted), and surpasses even the "old" immigration in this regard.[107] Of children under fourteen the Jewish movement has proportionately more than two and one-half times as many as the "new" immigration (Jews excepted), and nearly twice as many as the "old" immigration. This analysis shows conclusively that the Jewish immigration is essentially a family movement; that it is approached by no other immigrant people in this regard; that it not only cannot be classed with the "new" immigration, but shows a tendency towards family movement far stronger than that of the peoples composing the "old" immigration. The significance of this characteristic of the Jewish immigration is obvious. Their unequaled family movement gives one of the clearest indications that the Jewish immigrants are essentially composed of permanent settlers. FOOTNOTES: [94] _Cf._ table XXXIII, p. 176. [95] _Cf._ table XXXIV, p. 176. [96] _Cf._ table XXXV, p. 177. [97] _Cf._ Hersch, _op. cit._, p. 76. [98] _Cf._ table XXXVI, p. 177. [99] _Cf._ table XXXVII, p. 178. [100] _Cf. Abstract of Emigration Conditions in Europe_, p. 14. See Bibliography. [101] _Cf._ table XXXVIII, p. 179. [102] _Cf. Abstract of Emigration Conditions in Europe_, p. 15, for the high proportion of servants among the Irish immigrants. [103] _Cf._ table XXXIX, p. 180. [104] _Cf._ table XL, p. 181. [105] _Cf._ table XLI, p. 181. The Roumanian immigrants come principally from Austria-Hungary, and only slightly from Roumania. [106] _Cf. supra_, p. 131, note 2. [107] _Cf._ table XLII, p. 182. CHAPTER II PERMANENT SETTLEMENT Our studies of the sex and age distribution of the Jewish immigrants have shown a family movement unsurpassed in degree. This in itself is sufficient indication that the Jews are essentially permanent settlers in this country and not transients, "who have no intention of permanently changing their residence and whose only purpose in coming to America is temporarily to take advantage of greater wages paid for industrial labor in this country."[108] Equally convincing evidence is afforded by a survey of the facts regarding the outward movement of Jews from this country.[109] The figures of Jewish immigration are obtainable only from 1908, the law of 1907 having required all steamship companies to furnish information regarding their emigrant passengers.