The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-23
SOME QUEER QUESTIONS.
Census Enumerators Will have to In
quire Into Details.

! Qulre INTO OeJdlLS.
Odd and peculiar will be some OF the
information gathered by the census emu
merators beginning June /. Later de
tails given out by the supervisor make
very interesting reading and show that
the mere counting OF heacs is 10y nc
means all that is to be done.
The questions TO be asked by the emu
merators are grouped generally under
seven heads, name of head of household
and relationship of other members ol
the family, personal description, nativity,
citizenship, occupation, trade or profes
sion. education, ownership If home.
Under the personal description heading,
the enumeratOr is to learn the color sex,
date of birth, whether single, married,
widowed divorced. III the person be-
ing enumerat d is married, the length OF
time he has been married mast be stated,
and in the case OF a married woman the
enumeration must learn how many chr
dren she is the mother of aud how many
Of these are living.
June /, the census day, IS taken as u
basis of all information and two odd m
structiou5 are given in regard 10 Tins.
Persons who die after JuI e ! and before
the enumerator calls are to be enumerat-
ed as though still alive. and the children
born during that interval are not to be
counted.
Under the heading of nativity the emu
merator mast learn the birthplace OF each
resident of his district, and the birth
place Of his or her father and mother.
In certain instances this quest is to be
carried back one generation farther, as
in the case where one or both Of the pa
rents were born at sea, the enumerator
must learn the place of birth of the fath
err of the parents so born, and embody
this with the other information in this
report.
In case of foreign born residents, the
natal country must be learned, the length
of time the person has been in the Uni
ted States, and also whether or not he
has been naturalized or applied for his
first naturalization papers.
In obtaining the statistics in regard to
trades and professions, the enumerator
must learn the number of months dur
ing the past year in which the person
has not been employed. In the cases of
children attending school it must he so
stated, and in the case of every resident
over 10 years of age, the enumeration
must find out in any language and speak
English.
Information is to be obtained as to
whether the head of family rents or
whether he owns the house in which b ,
lives, and in the latter case whether it rs
mortgaged or free from debt.
Every person within the limits of the
United States June is to be enumerat-
ed at his usual place of abode, but the
census law furnishes no definition of the
phrase, "usual place of abode " Per
sons engaged in international transpor-
tation, canal men, expressmen, railroad
men, and railway mail clerks, If they
habitually return to their homes in the
intervals of their occupations, are to be
reported as of their families and not
where they may be temporarily staying
June |
Dwelling house for census purposes is
defined as place in which at the time
of the census one or more persons regu-
larry sleep. 1t need not be a house in
the usual sense of the word but may be a
room in factory, store, office building,
a loft over a stable, canal boat or a
tent. A building like tenement or
apartment house, if it has only one front
door, counts as one dwelling house, no
matter how many families or persons
live in it, liz block of houses, accord
ing to the instructions for gathering the
census, there are as many dwelling
houses as there are front doors.
According to the instructions, the
word fanny" for census purposes has
mucn wider application than in ordinary
speech, and means a group OF individuals
who occupy jointly dwelling place OF
part of one. A person who boards al
one house and lodges at another is to be
counted as member of the family where
he lodges. A domestic servant is to bt
counted as a member of the family where
she works. unless he sleeps elsewhere
| All the occupants and employees OF g
| hotel, if they regularly sleep there, are
counted as a single family, and the same
rule is to be applied to officers and In
mates of an institution who live in the
institution building.
AS the census family may be mucf
| larger than the natural family, it ma,
also be much smalle'. for every instance
of one person dwelling ,Llone Is to be re
ported as family. a clerk sleeping IL
a store is to be considered family, anC
the store is his dwenng place.
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