Completed questionnaires were received from 434 men living overseas at the time of the survey. We referred in Chapter I to the lack of definite evidence of the citizenship of some of these men, and to the difficulty in distinguishing between those who were working in a business or profession not connected with the United Kingdom, and those whose employer was in the United Kingdom. Because of these difficulties, and in view of the rather small uumbers working in any one country and in any one occupation, we have treated the overseas men as a single group. In the preceding three chapters this information from the men working in the United Kingdom is presented in some detail; in this chapter we do not give as much detail, the aim being to outline the main differences in overseas employment.

Place of work and nationality

85 of the men overseas were foreign or Commonwealth nationals who returned to their country of origin after completing their education in the United Kingdom. 7 were foreign nationals working outside their own countries. The remaining 340 men were British nationals, probably mostly of United Kingdom origin, but some possibly citizens of other Commonwealth countries either by birth or by naturalisation. Table 49 shows where these men were living at the time of the survey.

The men shown as ‘other British’ nationals in Table 49 included 17 from the United Kingdom who had definitely emigrated to Canada, and 17 who appeared to have settled in Canada but gave no definite evidence on this point. 26 men from the United Kingdom appeared to have settled in the United States, and 28 were probably permanently resident in various other countries.

The time the men had spent overseas was not necessarily an indication of the permanence of their residence outside the United Kingdom; some who had spent all their working time since graduation overseas clearly intended to return eventually; others had only recently left the United Kingdom but intended to settle overseas. Table 50 shows how long the men had been working overseas since graduation.

Type of employment

The largest employment groups were industry, education and government service. The majority of the men in civil government service were United Kingdom citizens in the Overseas Civil Service in Commonwealth territories, nearly half of them in Africa.