Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-12-31
QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED
Number And Nature of Questions to Be
Asked By Enumerators in Taking
The Census in 1910.
Schedule Contains Thirty-Two Que. .tion,
Concerning Every Man, Woman And
Child in The Country.

scneuule Wnlch Will be carried by the
enumorators during the Thirteenth
Decennial United States Census, April
10Th, next, contains thirty-tw ques.
tions concerning every man, woman
and child in this country, the total of
whom is expected to reach the number
of 9O,OO0,OO0, says Washington dis
patch.
The preparation of the population
schedule engaged for the past few
months the joint consideration of AS
sistant Director Willoughby. MIR. Viii.
liam G. Hunt, the United States cen.
sus chief statistician for population
and Prof. William Q. Bailey, the Yale
instructor in political economy, a
prominent member of the Census
Bureau advisory board of statisticians,
etc, who later was commissioned
supervisor of census for the state of
Connecticut.
The schedule has been approved by
Census Director Dnrand, and in its
final form will be 16 by 23 inches in
size, printed front and back, with SO
lines on eaca side, one for each per-
son enumerated. The government
printing office will print 100000 cop.
les, SO as to give each of the $50 su.
pervisors of census an ample supply
to meet all the needs of about 67.OOO
enumerators who will enumerate the
population in April next.
The paper on which the schedule
will be run off will be hrst quality
white writing, % by 80 inches, ga
pounds to the realm, the total weight
being 230,4 400 pounds. The entire
edition will be printed on Web press,
which will print two of the schedules,
face and back, each revolution, at the
rate of 5000 an hour. 1t will take
about six and half days for the press
to print the 100000. running sixteen
hours day.
The schedule paper is very heavy
and will stand great deal of handling.
The form of the schedule is more con
venient 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 tbeen punched the ratchet
wheel automatically moves the sched
ule up one line, aud all the operator
has to do is to operate the keys on the
punching machine.
For this stage of the compilation of
the population statistics l22,OOO,OOO
MANILA cards have been ordered for
the card-punching machine.
The thirty two questions are classi-
fed under thirteen 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 visitation.
Under the subject '.Name." for each
person whose place of abode on April
18th was in the family being enumerat-
ed, the census taker is instructed to
enter the surname first, 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 dat.
The third group, Relationship" calls
for statement Of the relationship
which the person enumerated bears to
the head of the family in which he re.
sides.
The personal description group asks
for the sex; color or race-that is
whether white, black mulatto, Chinese,
Japanese or Indian; age ut last birth.
day; whether single, married, widowed
or divorced; the number of years of
present marriage; and, under the
subject of "Mother of how many child.
ren," the number of children each
woman has had and the number living
now.
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
born in the United States, the emu.
merator must give the state or territory.
but if of foreign birth he must give the
country.
The two questions regarding citizen
ship apply to foreign born persons
only, and call for statement of the
year of immigration to the United
States. and, in the case OF adult males
whether naturalized or alien.
The next question requires the emu
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