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various classes of society in Germany, shortly before the war (i) resulted in the receipt of about 2400 answers to the 17,500 questionnaires sent out. Out of this figure, 2031 were sent by scholars, 650 of whom were pupils in the elementary and vocational schools, and 1381 in the commercial schools. Thanks to the valuable aid I received at Neuchatel, Geneva and Lausanne, in the organization of my enquiry, I obtained ten thousand answers, in round figures.
Let us see what information we have gained from this large number of answers. The text of this study, in which the answers of the children have been grouped by question, gives us the answer, and the reader is at liberty to draw his own conclusions. My task was essentially, as I declared in my first circular in 1914, to carry out a scientific work supported by documentary evidence, and not to undertake a study lege ferenda. And the only commentary that I wish to present together with the report on my enquiry concerns the scientific character of the results obtained.
It is true that the difficulties met with in tabulating the returns (of which I have spoken in the preface) and the limited time that we each had at our disposal, compelled me at the last to decide on a type of tabulation which is fragmentary in places rather than a complete tabulation, the data for which would have been uncertain.
But, in spite of its sometimes fragmentary nature, our enquiry contains scientific information of great interest, especially in regard to the psychology of children.
We will first examine some comparative statistics concerning the frequentation of the cinema in the three towns (Question n. 4).
I.
Answers
%
Go
%
Don't go
0/ /o
Girls . .
3986
I OO
3091
77-54
895
22.46
Boys . .
4261
IOO
3603
84.56
658
15-44
Total
8247
IOO
6694
8l.l7
1553
18.83
(1) V. Altenloh, Emilie : Zur Soziologie des Kino. Die Kino-Unternehmung und die sozialen Schichten ihrer Besucher, Jena, 19 14.
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