Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-12-24
THE POPULATION
SCHEDULE.
Number and Nature Of the
Questions to be Asked
by the Enumerators.
Washington D. c.,


tion schedule which will be cirried
by the enumerators during the mir
teenth Decennial United States Cen.
sus April 10 next, contains thirty
two questions concerning every man,
woman, and child ia this country,
the total of whom is expected TO
reach the number of 10000. 900.
The preparation of tho population
schedule engaged for the past few
.nonths the joint consideration Of
Assistant Director Willoughby, MIR.
William c. Hunt, the United Statee
Census chief statistician for Popnla.
tion, and Prof. William William B.
Bailey, the Yale instructor in politi
cal economy, a prominent member
of the Census Bureau advisory
board of statisticians etc., who later
was commissioned supervisor of cen.
sus for the state of Connecticut.
The schedule has been approved
by Census Director Durand, and in
its final form will be 16 by 20 inches
in size, printed front and back, with
so lines on each side, one for each
person enumerated. The Govern.
ment Printing Office will print /, 300
900 copies. so as to give each Of tho
$50 supervisors of census an ample
supply to meet all the needs of about
67, 900 enumerators who will enum
crate the population in April next.
The paper on which the schedule
will be run of will be first quality
white writing, 90 by 32 inches, GA
pounds to the ream, the total weight
being 230, 400 pounds. The entire
edition will be printed on a web
press, which will print two of the
schedules, face and back, each revu-
luton, at the rate eff 5000 an hour.
1t will take about six and half days
for the press to print the 1,so0, 900
running sixteen hours a day.
MORE CONVENIENT FORM.
The schedule paper is very heavy
and will stand great deal ef handl.
ing. The form of the schedule Is
more convenient than that used ten
years ago, and the two pages are 80
spaced that when the schedule isI
placed in the card punching machine
each time card has been punched
the ratchet wheel automatically
moves the schedule up one line, and
all the operator has to do is to oper
ate the keys on the punching ma
chine
For this stage of the compilation Of.
the population statistics I22, 900, 900
manila cards have been ordered for
II e card-punching machines.
The thirty-two questions are class
flied under thirteen groups.
The first is Location, and under
this head the enumerators must
write down the street, avenue, road,
etc., the house number In cities or
towns and the number OF the dwell
ing house and the number Of the
family, in the numerical order Of the
enumerator's visitation.
Under the subject Name" for
each person of abode on April 15 was
in the family being enumeFated, the
census taker is instructed to enter
the surname first, then the given
name ana middle initial, if-any. he
must include every person living on
April 10, 1910, and must omit child
rem born since that date.
The third group. Relationship,
calls for statement of the relatlon-
ship which the porson enumerated
bears to the head of the family In
which he resides.
The Personal Description group
asks for abe sex color or race-that
is, whether white, black, mulatto,
Chinese, Japanese, or Indian age at
last birthday; whether single, mar.
ried, widowed, or divorced; the
number of years of present marri
lage; aud, under the subject Of
Mother of how many children, ="
the number of children each woman
has had and the number now living.
THE COUNTRY OF BIRTH
The group relative to Nativity re-
quires answers stating the birth cf
the person enumerated and also Of
his or her father and mother. The
instructions are that IL either is born
in the United States, the enumera-
tor must give the state or territory
but if of foreign birth he must give
the country.
The two questions regarding Citi-
izenship apply to foreign-born per-
sons only. and call for q statement
of the year of immigration 70 the
United States, end, IN the case Of
adult males, whether naturaliz. d or