The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-12-23
NUMBER AND NATURE OF CUES
TIONS TO BE
ASKED BY ~ENUMERATORS
IN TAKING THE CENSUS WHICH
BEGINS ON APRIL IS, 1910.

questions concerning every man, WON
an and child In this country, the to-
tai of whom is expected to reach the
number of 80, 900, 600, says a Wash
ington dispatch.
The preparation Of the population
schedule engaged for the past few
months the joint consideration of AS
sistant Director Willoughby, Mr.. VIII,
liam G. Hunt, the United States Cen
sus chief statistician for population,
and Prof. William b. Bailey, the Yale
instructor in political economy, a
prominent member of the Census
Bureau advisory board Of statisticians,
etc, who later was commissioned SUI
pervisor Of census for the state of
Connecticut.
The schedule has been approved by
Census Director Durand, and in it's
final form will be 16 by % inches in
size, printed front and back, with so
lines on each side, n for each per-
son enumerated. The government
printing office will print 1900, 900 cop
les, so as to give each OF the $50 SUI
pervisors of census an ample supply
to meet all the needs Of about 67,0 0
enumerators who will enumerate the
population in April next.
The paper on which the schedule
will be run off will be f~irst-quality
white writing, 23 by 80 inches, GA
pounds to the ream. the total weight
being 10000 pounds. The entire
edition will be printed on a 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 a half days for the press
to print the 1900, 900, running sixteen
hours a day.
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 c~ard-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 operate the
keys ON the punching machine.
For this stage of the compilation of
the population statistics 1921 900 900
MANILA cards have been ordered for
the card punching machines.
The thirty-two questions are class
flied 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
15 was In the family being enumerat-
ed, the census taker Is instructed to
enter the surname first. the given
name and middle initial, II 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 relationship
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,, Chin
csc, Japanese or Indian; age at last
birthday; whether single, married, wild
owed or divorced; the number of
years of present marriage; and, under
the subject of Mother of how many
children" the number of children each
has had and the number liv-
ing 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 ere that II either
born in the United States, the emu
merator must give the state or terri
tory, but II Of foreign birth he must
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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 n~aturalised OF allen.
The next question requires the GNU
merator to ascertain whether the per-
sop II able to speak English. Of, Il
not. to give the language spoken.
There are hve questions touching
upon occupation. The first calls for
tho trade OF ~profsssion Of. ~ particu-
~ Kind o. work done bys IL person
&olng enumerated. su6h ~ 70 quote
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