1, 1950 TABLE 8.-Population by color, for divisions and States, 19501 and 1940-Continued ! Nonwhite total for 1950 represents complete Census enumeration and differs from figures shown in other tables which are based on sample data. 1 Less than 1 percent. Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census. TABLE 9 Included in this table are those cities of the United States which have a population of 50,000 or more nonwhites for years 1940 and 1950. TABLE 9.-Population by color, 1950 and 1940, for cities with 50,000 or more nonwhites in 1950 5 to 13 14 to 1 The median school years completed by white and nonwhite perso 25 years old and over are incorporated in this table. Census figures of 1940 and 1952 are used for nonwhite, the years 1940 and 1950 i white. 3LE 11A.-Median school years completed by white persons 25 years old and over, by sex, 1950 and 1940 'he median change for nonwhites between the 1940-52 period was years, an increase of one-tenth of a point over the 1950 figure. LE 11B.-Median school years completed by nonwhite persons 25 years old and over, by sex, 1952 and 1940 1 hool enrollment of both whites and nonwhites covering the ages 5 ugh 24 are considered in this table. Census figures for 1940 1950 are used. E 12.-School enrollment of the population 5 to 24 years of age, by color, 1950 and 1940 The white and nonwhite population between the ages 5-13 for the 1950 period, are included in these figures. In both these white and nonwhite groups, 81.4 percent were enrolled in schools. The 18-to-24-age group of nonwhites had a 5.5 percent increase in school enrollment during the 1940-50 period. There was a 5.3 pe cent increase of whites in this age group attending school for the same period. TABLE 13 The following tabulations give the employment status of the white and nonwhite population for the years 1947, 1949, 1951, and 1952. As of 1952, 4.6 percent of the nonwhite labor force was unemployed This was down 3.6 percent from the 1949 figure. White unemploye in 1952 was 2.4 percent of the working force. This represents a 2 percent drop in the white unemployed figure from 1949. It is assume. that the industrial needs brought about by the Korean conflict was one of the major causes of the drop in unemployment figures. Nonwhite females in the 1952 working force was 44.2 percent and white females 32.7 percent. For nonwhite females in 1952, this represents a one-tenth of 1 percent increase in its labor force over the year 1947. White females for the same two periods show an increase of 3.2 percent in the labor force. TABLE 13.—Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, by co and sex, annual averages 1952, 1951, 1949, and 1947 |