90
65
Census Report, 1971, Tables II and XIII. No detailed breakdown of Dialect Spoken in the Home by the floating population is included in the 1911 Census
* Oral evidence suggests that the boat people did have larger families than the land people, and a higher rate of infant mortality, but these figures still suggest that the “35 per thousand" figure given by the Census officer in 1921 may have been slightly under-estimated
67 Census Report, 1921, Table XXVI
68 Taken from the 1911 Table of Places of Birth (Northern District), and the 1921 Tables of
Places of Birth (Northern District Southern District, Floating Population)
69
Census Report, 1911, Table XXVIII
70 The 1911 Census records 24,468 males of 10 years old and upward, and 22,460 of 15 years and upward, suggesting about 24,000 of 12 years and upward The married state of 24,378 males is recorded, of whom 881 were married before the age of 12 The corresponding figures for Northern District females are 27,926, and 24,378, suggesting about 26,000 aged 12 and upward, with the married state of 26,723 females actually recorded, of whom 902 were married before the age of 12
* The corresponding figures in 1911 for the Southern District land population were 0.8% and 1.1%
* In 1911 the Married State figures for Southern District are not broken down into the Islands and New Kowloon, and are therefore difficult to use
* The "Occupations" Table of the 1921 Census (TABLE XVIII) shows 31 male, and 104 female religious in North District, and 14 male and 71 female religious in South District in 1921
24 Census Report 1911, Table XXX
75 Census Report 1921, Table XII See also Alice Ng Lun Nga-ba, "Village Education in Transition The Case of Sheung Shui”, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol 82 (1982), pp 252-270 generally for this section of this article
76 In 1931, the Census Officer stated that he felt the 1921 Census figures for educational attainments of the floating population were inaccurate. He suggested 34.04% of floating population males over 20, and 1.38% of females over 20 were literate These figures, however, are not broken down by district See Sessional Papers Laid Before the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, 1931, printed by Noronha and Co, Hong Kong, 1931, No 5/1931, "Report on the Census of the Colony of Hong Kong, 1931" (the Census Report, 1931), p [4]
* See Alice Ng Lun Ngai-ha, op cit p 266
Census Report, 1911, Tables XXXV and XXXVI