HC Deb 02 December 1912 vol 44 c1892W
Mr. CLOUGH

asked the numbers of male persons and of female persons in Ireland who stated their age to be twenty-one years at the last Census; and the numbers of male persons and of female persons who then returned their age as twenty-five years?

Mr. BIRRELL

The figures asked for are not available. On the 2nd April, 1911, the numbers of males and females aged twenty and under twenty-one years were respectively 44,961, and 41,573, and there were 159,005 males and 171,211 females whose ages were between twenty-five and thirty years.

Mr. CLOUGH

asked the President of the Local Government Board the numbers of male persons and of female persons in England and Wales who stated their age to be twenty-one years at the last Census; and the numbers of male persons and of female persons who then returned their age as twenty-five years?

Mr. BURNS

The numbers as returned at twenty-one years are 304,131 males, and 331,632 females; at twenty-five years, 293,303 males, and 333,923 females.