5%
2.992 females aged 25-30 m 1911 2 795 m 1921
Census Report 1911 Table XXI
Census Report 1921, Tables XXIV-XXVIIL
Based on a figme of double the female population since the male population is clearly significantly distorted by immigration
* Sec JW Hayes, The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911 Institutions in Town and Country side.
Hamden, Connection, 1977
** Censies Report, 1977, Tables IX and X. No detailed breakdown of Place of Buth of the
Hoating population is mcluded in the 1911 Census
C. I
The statistics for Place of Birth in the 1921 Census give a somewhat different picture There (Census Report. 1921, Table XI) the place of birth of 34,724 Northern Disnier males and 36,311 Northern District females are given, of which only 88% (males) and 82% (females) were born within the New Tentories. The sharply higher figures for persons. horn outside the New Teritones seems to be due to three factors. The list is the time of The Census The 1921 Census was taken during the cooler weather (March-April; as compared with the 191] Census (April-June). Numbers of stonecutters itinerant weavers etc are likely to have been lugher in 1921 as it is known from oral evidence that many of these village-to-village faders went back to then own families in villages outaide the New Territories for the summer and harvest seasons, and would thus have been enumerated m 1921 but not m 1911. This is doubtless the reason the 1921 Census shows a far higher figure for males born in Kwai Shon District (997 compared to 354), and also for males from the area north of Canton (241 as compared to 23), although the numbers from Ka Ying and other Last River areas were lower (142 as compared to 1771. This may also be the reason for higher recorded numbers of males from other inland areas in 1921 (Sze Yap 77 as compared to 25, and Shiu Hing area. 95 as to 19). With the exception of Kwan Shm, all the 1921 figures for these areas show far fewer temales than males (Kwa Shin, 1507 females, north of Canton 1-42. East River 72, Sze Yap 16, Shiu Hing 45) The effects of the Ching Ming Festival, and the remaining 1920 refugees are responsible, almosı certamly, for the much lugher numbers of San On born males (1213 in 1921, only 243 in 1911), and may in part also account for the mcrease in Tung Kun males (385 m 1921 163 m 1911). Most of the difference, however, must be due to a more careful enumeration of the boat people in the area. The higher numbers recorded in 1921 for males born in the Delta (750 as against 234), the Chin Chau atea (143 as against 9). Hong Kong (226 as against 10), and Macao (25 as against mil), must be due to this factor The reduction in the numbers of women recorded as born in Hong Kong (1208 as agaist 2383 in 1911) may he due to errors in the 1911 record. Because of these differences, it is difficult to compare the two Censuses directly with regard to these statistics. It is considered likely that the 1911 figures are closer to the actual position of fong-term land population residents bor outside the area. The information in the 1921 Census does not permit any direct comparison whn the Place of Bath figures for Southern District in 1911, since the 1921 figures include New Kowloon as well as the Islands
89
5%
2.992 females aged 25-30 m 1911 2 795 m 1921
Census Report 1911 Table XXI
Census Report 1921, Tables XXIV-XXVIIL
Based on a figme of double the female population since the male population is clearly significantly distorted by immigration
* Sec JW Hayes, The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911 Institutions in Town and Country side.
Hamden, Connection, 1977
** Censies Report, 1977, Tables IX and X. No detailed breakdown of Place of Buth of the
Hoating population is mcluded in the 1911 Census
C. I
The statistics for Place of Birth in the 1921 Census give a somewhat different picture There (Census Report. 1921, Table XI) the place of birth of 34,724 Northern Disnier males and 36,311 Northern District females are given, of which only 88% (males) and 82% (females) were born within the New Tentories. The sharply higher figures for persons. horn outside the New Teritones seems to be due to three factors. The list is the time of The Census The 1921 Census was taken during the cooler weather (March-April; as compared with the 191] Census (April-June). Numbers of stonecutters itinerant weavers etc are likely to have been lugher in 1921 as it is known from oral evidence that many of these village-to-village faders went back to then own families in villages outaide the New Territories for the summer and harvest seasons, and would thus have been enumerated m 1921 but not m 1911. This is doubtless the reason the 1921 Census shows a far higher figure for males born in Kwai Shon District (997 compared to 354), and also for males from the area north of Canton (241 as compared to 23), although the numbers from Ka Ying and other Last River areas were lower (142 as compared to 1771. This may also be the reason for higher recorded numbers of males from other inland areas in 1921 (Sze Yap 77 as compared to 25, and Shiu Hing area. 95 as to 19). With the exception of Kwan Shm, all the 1921 figures for these areas show far fewer temales than males (Kwa Shin, 1507 females, north of Canton 1-42. East River 72, Sze Yap 16, Shiu Hing 45) The effects of the Ching Ming Festival, and the remaining 1920 refugees are responsible, almosı certamly, for the much lugher numbers of San On born males (1213 in 1921, only 243 in 1911), and may in part also account for the mcrease in Tung Kun males (385 m 1921 163 m 1911). Most of the difference, however, must be due to a more careful enumeration of the boat people in the area. The higher numbers recorded in 1921 for males born in the Delta (750 as against 234), the Chin Chau atea (143 as against 9). Hong Kong (226 as against 10), and Macao (25 as against mil), must be due to this factor The reduction in the numbers of women recorded as born in Hong Kong (1208 as agaist 2383 in 1911) may he due to errors in the 1911 record. Because of these differences, it is difficult to compare the two Censuses directly with regard to these statistics. It is considered likely that the 1911 figures are closer to the actual position of fong-term land population residents bor outside the area. The information in the 1921 Census does not permit any direct comparison whn the Place of Bath figures for Southern District in 1911, since the 1921 figures include New Kowloon as well as the Islands
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