Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23
APPLIES TO ALL,
The Census Of 0ccupa-
lions Beginning April IS.
Occupation Of Child or Woman
As Important as Mans.
II a Person Has Two Occupations
Only One Must Be Returned.

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Washington, D. c., Feb. 22.-The
Occupation" question in the United
States census population schedule to
be carried by the enumerators during
the Thirteenth Decennial Census, be-
ginning April Is next, applies to
everybody living in the United States
! on the date mentioned, which is the
Census Day." and all the population
schedule questions relate to it only.
| In its printed instruction to enum-
orators the Census Bureau holds that
the occupation followed by a child or
a woman is just as important, for
census purposes, as the occupation of
a man. Therefore the enumerators
are told never to take it for granted
without inquiry that woman or
child old enough to work has no gain
full occupation.
1t is pointed out, however, that only
| gainful occupations are to be report
ed. BY this is meant any employ
ment work, profession, or vocation by
which the person working regularly
earns money or it's equivalent. The
fact that a person has no gainful oc-
schedule. If person is only tenn
porarily 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 onlyathe more
important one-that is, the one from
which the person gets the more
money. If that can not be learned,
then he is to return the one at which
the persons spends the more time
AS an illustration, the enumerators
are told to return a man as farmer
if he gets most of his income from
farming. although he may also follow
the occupation of clergyman or
preacher; but they must return him
as clergyman" if he gets more Of
his income from that occupation.
In the case of woman doing
homework in her own home. without
salary or wages, and having no other
employment, the entry is to be that
she has no occupation. But wom-
an working at homework for wages
should be returned as "housekeeper."
| Servant" cook" or "chambermaid,"
as the case may be. and the entry
should state the place where she
works, as private family" "hotel," or
| "boarding house" Or if woman,
| in addition to doing homework in her
| own home, regularly earns money by
some other occupation, whether pur-
sued 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."
| WOMEN DOING FARM WORK.
| A woman working regularly at out
| door farm work, even though she
| works on the home farm of her hus-
band, son, or other relative and does
| not receive money wages. should be |
| returned as 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 4 farm should be re-
| ported as 4 farmer" and not as a
farm laborer"
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 q child working
for his board away from home.
children, or even adults. attending
school or college or any educational
institution. and following no other
employment, should be returned as
having no occupation. But If any
person is attending school or collage
ana at the same time is regularly
earning money at some gainful oc-
cupation, the enumerators are to re-
turn that occupation. In either case
they must indicate the fact of school
or college attendance.
Children who work. for their parents
at home merely on general household
work or at odd times on other work
are to be reported as having no occu-
patton. But children who materially |
| assist their parents in the performance
of work other than household work |
should be reported as having the cc-
crpation in which they are SO employ
! ed, even though they receive no wages |
In the case of children who work for
their own parents on farm, that fact
| is to be entered as 'home farm" But
| for children who work as farm labor
ers for others the enumerator's entry
| is to be working out" t
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