The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-20
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United States census population
schedule which will be carried by the
enumerators during the thirteenth de-
cennial United States census, April
Is next. contains 32 questions con-
cerning every man, woman, and child
in this country, the total of whom
is expected to reach the number or
9O.000,000.
The preparation OF the population
schedule engaged for the past lew
months the Joint consideration of-As-
sistant Director Willoughby, William
G.. Hunt. the United States census
chief statistician for population, and
Prof. William B. Bailey, the Yale in
structor in political economy, prom
inent member of the census bureau
advisory board of statisticians, etc,
who later was commissioned super
visor of census for the state of Con-
necticut
The schedule has been approved by
Census Director Durand, and in its
final form will be 16 by % inches in
size, printed front and back, with SO
lines on each side, one for each per-
son enumerated. The government
printing Office will print 100000
copies, so as to give each of the $50
supervisors of census an ample sup
ply to meet all the needs of about
$1,000 enumerators who will emu
merate the population in April next.
The paper on which the schedule
will be run off will be first quality
white writing, 23 by 80 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 revolu-
ton, at the rate of 5000 an hour.
1t will take about six and half days
for the press to print the 1,800,00
running 16 hours day.
More Convenient Form.
The schedule paper is very heavy
and will stand a great deal of hand
ling. The form of the schedule is
more convenient than that used ten
years ago. and the two pages are so
spaced that when the schedule is
placed in the card punching machine,
each time a 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 1872 ,000,-
600 manila cards have been ordered
for the card punching machines.
The 80 questions are classified un-
der 13 groups.
The first is location, and under this
head the enumerator must write
down the street, avenue, road, ETC.;
the house number in cities and towns;
and the number of the dwelling house
and the number of the family, in the
numerical order of the enumerator's s
visitation.
Under the subject Name" for
each person whose place of abode on
April Is was in the family being emu
merated, the census taker is instruct
ed to enter the surname first, then
the given name and middle initial, if
any. He must include every person
living on April Is, 1910, and must
omit children born since that date.
The third group, Relationship,
calls for a statement of the relation
ship which the person enumerated
bears to the head of the family in
which he resides.
The Personal Description group
asks for the 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 num-
Der of years Of present marriage; and
under the subject of Mother of how
many children" the number ofchil-
dren each woman has had and the
number now living.
The Country of Birth.
The group relative to Nativity re-
quires answers stating the place of
birth of the person enumerated and
also of his or her father and mother
The instructions are that if either is
born in the United States, the EMU