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boroughs of over 50,000 population, the customary statistics of new Commonwealth immigrant children on 1st January, 1971, where such children exceeded 2 per cent. showing the corresponding figures for 1st January, 1970.
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January, 1970
| January, 1971
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Primary Schools
| Secondary Schools
| Primary and Secondary Schools
| Primary Schools
| Secondary Schools
| Primary and Secondary Schools
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| Oldham | … | … | … | 3·3 | 3·7 | 3·4 | 3·6 | 4·0 | 3·7 |
| Oxford | … | … | … | 6·1 | 4·5 | 5·5 | 5·8 | 4·6 | 5·3 |
| Preston | … | … | … | 8·7 | 8·6 | 8·7 | 10·2 | 9·0 | 9·8 |
| Reading | … | … | … | 7·4 | 5·7 | 6·8 | 7·7 | 6·0 | 7·0 |
| Rochdale | … | … | … | 5·3 | 3·9 | 4·8 | 6·2 | 5·7 | 6·0 |
| Sheffield | … | … | … | 3·0 | 2·0 | 2·6 | 2·9 | 2·1 | 2·6 |
| Southampton | … | … | … | 2·6 | 2·0 | 2·3 | 2·7 | 2·2 | 2·5 |
| Walsall | … | … | … | 8·1 | 7·5 | 7·9 | 8·9 | 7·6 | 8·4 |
| Warley | … | … | … | 10·8 | 9·7 | 10·4 | 11·0 | 9·8 | 10·6 |
| West Bromwich | … | … | 6·8 | 5·0 | 6·1 | 6·7 | 4·7 | 6·0 | |
| Wolverhampton | … | … | 15·4 | 10·4 | 13·5 | 14·9 | 10·1 | 13·0 | |
* For this purpose immigrant pupils arc defined as | |||||||||
| (i) children born outside the British Isles who have come to this country with, or to join. parents or guardians whose countries of origin were abroad; and | |||||||||
| (ii) children born in the United Kingdom to parents whose countries of origin were abroad and who came to the United Kingdom within the last ten years. | |||||||||
