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ing proportional table that it is not correct to assume, as has been don e in other similar inquiries, that the large mass of children and youths who frequent th e cinemas either alone or in the company of friends is composed of children of the workmen and agricultural class. The higher figures come from the professional classes and from those professional classes that are best off. financially speaking, and most occupied in intellectual work.
The highest isolated attendances are to be observed in the case of the children of persons of private means and shop-keepers, while the minimum is registered by the children of employees and agriculturists. The highest figure for attendance with friends is to be seen among the children of men of the professional class and the shop-keepers, while the minimum is found among the agriculturists and the employees. In other words, those who go oftenest to the cinema accompanied by relations are the children of employees and agriculturists, while the minimum in this case is attributable to the children of shop-keepers and men of private means.
Manner of Attendance :
Total Alone % With friends % With reltns %
Workmen 4660 703 15.08 1145 24,57 2812 60.35
Agriculturists -2782 308 11.07 669 24.04 1805 64.89
Private Means 1200 202 16.83 327 27.25 671 55.92
Employees 4113 462 11.23 859 20.88 3092 57.75
Professional Men 1638 204 12.46 488 29.79 946 57.75
Shop-keepers 3054 544 17.81 852 27.89 1658 54.30
The phenomenon under consideration is not easily explained. That the children of men of private means and professional men should provide high figures for the second category is understandable owing to social conditions and the number of relationships between the various families. The maximum given for the third category of manner of attendance, that is, by the children of employees, is also logical. We can understand that this class as a consequence of its mental attitude and habits would naturally prefer to undertake the surveillance of its children even when they go to places of amusemen t so as not to let them run the risk of the dangers inevitably inherent in isolated attendance or attendance with friends. The other returns, on the other hand, offer difficulties and complexities for analysis which would be worth a more detailed examination. Such would, however, not be within the scope of the present statistical study.
For this group of questions, we may make the following summarized table : —
Manner of Attendance :
Alone With friends With relations
Shop-keepers Professional Men Employees
Men of Pvte Means Shop-keepers Agriculturists
Workmen Men of Pvte Means Workmen
Professional men Workmen Professional Men
Employees Agriculturists Men of Pvte Means
Agriculturists Employees Shop-keepers