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Occupation
An Exceedingly Important
Question In The Census
Must Also Be ASCeftained In
Regard To Children
Occupation" Applies To PGo.
pie Working Part OF Time
Those Having GainfuI OCCu'
patiunS Listed As Workers
Other information Contained
In The Census Schedule


patton question in the United States
census population schedule to be car
| ried by the enumerators during che
| Thirteenth Decennial Census, begin
ming April next, applies to everybody
living In the United States on the
date mentioned, which Is the "Cen-
sus" Day, and all the population
schedule questions relate Co 1t only.
In it's printed instructions to
enumerators, the Census Bureau holds
that the occupation followed by a
child or woman is just as import
ant, for census purposes, as the occu-
patton of a man. Therefore the
enumeraCors are told never to take it
for granted without inquiry that a
woman or child old enough to work
has no gainful occupation.
IC is pointed out, however, that
only gainful occupations are to be re-
ported. By this is meant any en-
ployment, work, profession, or voca-
tion by which the person working
regularly earns money or its equiva-
lent. The fact that a person has no
gainful occupation is to be noted on
the schedule. If person Is only
temporarily unemployed on account
of lack of work, or sickness or other
| temporary reason, the occupation
which that person usually follows is
to be reported.
If a person has two occupations,
the enumerator must return only the
more important one-thaG is, the one
from which the person gets the more
money. If that cannot learned, then
he Is to return the one at which the
person spends the more time. AS an
illustration, the enumerators are told
to return man as a farmer" IL he
gets most of his income from farm
Ing, although he may also follow the
occupation of clergyman or preach
err; but they must return him as a
Clergyman" If he gets more of his
income from that occupation.
In the case of a woman doing
housework in her own home, without
salary or wages, and having no other
employment, the entry Is to be that
she has no occupation. But wo-
man working at housework for wag-
es should be returned as "housekeep-
err" servant" "ccok," or chamber
maid," as the case may be, and the
entry should state the place where
she works, as private family" "ho-
TEL" or boarding house." Or If a
woman, in addition TO doing house
work In her own home, regularly
earns money by some other occupa-
tion, whether pursued In her own
home or outside, that occupation
should be returned. For instance,
a woman who regularly takes in
washing should be reported as
'laundress" or "washerwoman."
A woman working regularly at
outdoor farm work, even though she
works on the home farm for her hus-
band, son or other relative and does
not receive money wages, should be
returned as q farm laborer." The
enumerators are to distinguish, how
ever, the women who work on the
home farm from those who work
away from home by writing either
"home farm" or working out" as
the case may require. A woman
who, herself, operates or runs a farm
should be reported as a farmer" :"
and not as farm labofer."
If any child, of whatever age. is
regularly earning money, the en-
ployment which he or she follows
should be returned as an occupation.
This applies also TO child working
for his board away from home.
Children, or even adults, attend
ing school or college or any educa-
tional institution. and following no
other employment, should be return
ed as having no occupation. But II
any person is attending school or
college and at the same time Is regu-
larly earning money &C some gainful
Occupation, the enumerators are to
return that occupation. In either
case they must indicate the fact OF
school or college attendance.
children who work for their par