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This graph provides a good idea both of the
general trend of outmigration and of the varying degress
of mobility among different sex and age groups from the
middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the
twentieth.
- In general, the extent of outmigration declined slightly
during the 1860s and 1870s before a dramatic increase
in the 1890s, after which it declined steadily into
the first decade of the twentieth century.
- To judge from the average percent change of the population
in census registration districts from one census to
the next, outmigration was considerably more pronounced
among males 5 to 24, males 5 to 14, females 5 to 14,
and females 15 to 24, in that order.
- This was not a new phenomena but the persistence of
a well-established pattern: as before, so in the industrializing
era, the search for work meant that boys and girls,
young men and young women were the most mobile segments
of the population.
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