Evening journal., 1910-09-07
STATE POPULATION
CENSUS BULLETINS
Radical and Practical Depar-
ture From Previous Gen.
SuS Methods
NEW ORDER WILL
START In JANUARY

SAnAtA AkN JhlNOhWA
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. r.
Census Director Durand announced
to-day that the Census Buteau will
begin about January next the issu-
ance from time TO time of series OF
bulletins, each giving certain popula-
ton statistics for a single state and
its subdivisions. The form of these
bulletins. which will later be bound
up to constitute regular census vol
umes, marks a very distinct depar-
ture from the method of publishing
census statistics ten years ago. II Is
one step in the carrying out OF Di-
rector Durand's aim to simplify and
make more accessible the census
data. so that they can be readily
used, not merely by expert students
and statisticians. but by the average
citizen. The directors statement fol-
lows
Form Of Reports of 1900 Census.
I'm the reports of the previous CEN
sus practically all the information
was arranged with a view to facilitate
Ing comparisons between different To-
calities with respect to given sub
the people OF a given locality TO as
certain readily all the facts with re-
| gard 10 that locality.
Thus, the numbers OF inhabitants
for all the so-called minor civil di-
Internationally villages, etc. Of
all the states were presented In one
table. the same figures for the incor-
porated places Of all the states in
another table, the various classes OF
population details regarding all the
counties in the United States in an
other series Of tables, etc. This
meant that a person who wished TO
look up the statistics Of minor civil
divisions, Incorporated places and
counties for his own state alone. had
TO look In several widely separated
places for them. Even a person who
desired to find information with re-
gard TO his own county alone had 10
consult a large number Of scattered
tables.
"In one table. for example, he
would find the absolute number Of in
habitants for his county side by side
with similar figures for every other
county In the United States He
would have to go to another table.
where again the figures for all the
counties Of the country appeared, TO
find the flgu 'es distinguishing the
population OF his county according q
color and native and foreign birth
He would have to turn over many
pages more before he came to the fig
ures for his county with regard to the
country of birth of the foreign born
Still further over he would find tn
figures for his county regarding male
81 years of age and over, IN auothe
I place, in fact, In another volum,
the figures regarding illiteracy; Bti
:. elsewhere those regarding the scho
4 attendance of the children. In ear
!, of these tables the figures for any oil
j.. county were presented from left
right. the various counties being lil
= ed- down We side OF he page and a
subjects across the top.
THE result OF this method of pr
=. sentation was that very few Of the II
. habitants of any county ever saw ,
made any use OF the statistics regarl
ing that county. except possibly thos
OF the mere number OF inhabitant
Similarly. in the 1900 census repor
the statistics of any given city or vii
lage had to be picked out from man
, scattered places.
4
at is the intention at the presen
census to publish for each state
, bulletin which will contain at leas
I the more important figures derivel
from the populasion census, both 70
, the state, as a whole, and for 4
counties, cities. and minor civil III
! visions. Moreover, the facts available
. with regard to any given county q
any given city which are contained fl
this bulletin, will be all published to
. gether In one place. one item belo7
/ another, the name Of the county o.
B city appearing at the head Of a col
umn, and the various subjects beini
listed down the side OF the page. TIL
items regarding counties will requir
70 two pages to list In this way b.
, reading down the figures IN a givei
I column on two facing pages. the Cit
zen of any county will have befor
him all the facts which the censu
publishes with regard that county
The data for twelve counties can b
. presented In this manner on the tw
pages BY turning a few pages an
reading from left to right a perso
\ can compare the figures for his count
= with those OF every other county I
the state. A similar treatment vii
J be given to at least the principal sta
j, tistics Of individual cities.
"The bulletins for the sewers
states, as first issued. will not,
should be noted, contain all the infoi
nation which the census will ult
r mately publish with regard 70 tbs
state or its large cities. II will cor
tain only the information which
, secured by the first two runs Of III
population cards through the tabI
lAting machines This. however. II
: cludes all the information which wi
ever be available with regard
counties and their minor civil d
visions, and the smaller cities an
villages; for It will readily be undel
. stood that the census cannot afford
y present such elaborate statistics wit
: regard to a county. a township. or