Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-26
THE CENSUS REruRHs.

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THE CENSUS RETURNS.
Weeks Perhaps Months VIII Elapse
Before Figures Are Publtshed.
Washington, June 26-Director OF
Census Merriam has given out the fol-
lowing statement for the information
OF the public:
The census Office ID now In receipt
of many. letters daily asking for infor-
nation as to the results of the census
in particular localities, especially in the
larger cities. 1t does not appear to the
writer's that the census has not yet
been taken. The law allows until June
is in cities OF 5000 inhabitants and in
rural districts until the LIST Of July for
its completion and after that the sched-
ules have to be examined by the super
visors OF census before they can be for.
warded to Washington, in order that
the supervisors may determine whether
the work has been satisfactorily done
and may be in position to certify to
correctness OF the enumerators' ac-
counts for service rendered under the
| law.
In order to appease the Impotence
of the public the following statement
has been prepared, showing what has
to be done with the census returns
when received at Washington and why
1T must be weeks or even months be-
fore the figures can be given out in.
their entirety:
Every enumerator Is required to file
a daily report card showing how many
hours and minutes he has been at work
and how many persons he has enumer
ated that day. SINCE there are (includ-
ing special enumerators for institutions
land for military and naval population)
approximately $1,000 eoumerators, and
thirty days are allowed for the cemple-
| ton Of the census, the number of daily
4 report cards to be examined In the CEN
sus Office is somewhere between 1,000,-i
900 and 1900, 900. every one OF which has
Ito be copied by hand upon series OF
blank tabular statements, OF which
there. is one for every enumerator.
These are then re-copied upon sum
mary statement showing the amount Of
work in each supervisors district, and
since there is space on each blank for
recording the work of 100 enumerators.
land only part Of the blank will be filed.
there will be approximately 1000 of
these sheets.
1T is difficult for anyone not famil-
lar with census work to form any idea
\ of the vast amount OF material to be
handled in all of the divisions of the
.office. The number OF boxes containing
schedules sent to the enumerators in
advance of taking the census was 4,500
4 and their total weight was estimated
lat 300 tons. All Of this material is re-
turned to Washing ton, where 1t is sort
led out and arranged in order by states
Land the subdivisions of states upon
shelving aggregating several miles in
4 length. There is an invoice of sched-
/ ules in every box received, which has
to be verified, and the schedules which
4 do not relate to population have to be
counted and delivered to the chief stat
4 isticians for mortality, agriculture and
manufacturers and their receipts taken
for the same. A separate receipt has
to be made out by each of them for
each of the $4,000 enumerators.
4 Next in order follows the examina-
ton in detail of the schedules. Every
schedule has to be examined in order to
see that the enumerator has not made
an overcharge for his services. For this
4 purpose the schedule has to be COM
pared with the account rendered by
him. Every possible effort will be
A made to pay the enumerators at the
earliest possible date. A business man
4 knows that $1,000 bills presented for
i payment in one day could not be au-
dited and paid at sight
4 The schedules then go to the clerks
employed in punching cards for the
Hollerith electric tabulating machine.
When these cards have been punched
they have to be verified by the use of
a special machine, also adjusted to
4 throw out every card which does not
fulfill certain conditions of accuracy in
punching. A count of the population
will be made during this Notification,
4 by color, by sex and by native or for
3eign birth, which will consume possibly
five or six months. Not until this ma
l.any particular city, county or state can
4 the figures be given out for publication.
The cities will naturally be taken up
hrst and as fast as the actual popula-
tion. as returned by the enumerators.
Is ascertained it will be posted on a
i buiietin board IN the hal! outside the
v SSSOA . y VIII LIE OF
Il the press. figures not given out hy the
census officers will be understood to be
merely guesses, which may in some
cases approximate the truth. but are
unauthorized and untrustworthy.,
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