The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-06
STATE POPULATION
 CENSUS BULLETINS
A Radical and Practical Departure From Pre-
 vious Census Methods

Washington, Sept. 7.-Census Di-
 rector Durand announced today that i the Census Bureau will begin about | January next the issuance from time to time of a series of bulletins, each 1 giving certain population statistics for
 a single State and it's subdivisions.
 The form of these bulletins. which
 will later be bound up to constitute
 regular census volumes, marks a very distinct departure from the
 method of publishing census statistics l tRn years ago. It is one step in the carrying out of Director Durand's | aim to simplify and make more ac-
 cessib1e the census data, so that they can be readily used, not merely by expert students and statisticians. but 1 by the average citizen. The direc- tors statement follows:
 FORM OF REPORTS OF 1900 CENSUS.
 1 ttIn the reports of the previous een- sus, practically all the information was arranged with a view to facili- tating com mparisons between different localities with respect to a given sub
 lset' and not with a y1ew 7nfi+ 51 snaoi1ng fa gs certain readily all the facts With re- gard to that locality.
 Thus. the numbers of inhabitants for all the so-cal1ed minor civil divis- ions-townships villages, etc, of all the States were presented Tn one ta- Die, the same nSuTeS TOT iLI1S 11COT- 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
 me cant that a person who wished to
 look up the statistics of minor civil
 divisions. ineorporated or @ places 1 ana and
 to look in several widely separated
 places for them. Even person
 who desired to find information with
 a,.J fa Iii V had
 to consult a large number of scat
 tered tables
 .In one table na21,.s for example. ample he he
 inhabitants for his county side by
 side with similar figures for every other county in the United States
 ble, where again the figures for all the counties of the country appeared,
 to find the figures distinguishing the population of his county according to color and native and foreign birth. He would have to turn over many pages more. before he came to the the country of birth of the foreign born Still further over he would find the figures for his county re- garding males 21 years of age and over: in another place, ia fact, in another volume, the figures regarding illiterarcy; still elsewhere those re- garding the school attendance of the children. In each of these tables the figures. for any one county were presented from left left to right; the "a va. side of the page and the subjects across the top.
 IsaThe result of this method of pre- sentatfon was that very few of the | inhabitants of any county ever saw | or made any use of the statistics re i garding that county, except possibly | those of the mere mum Der of inhab- ftants. Similarly, in the 1900 cen-l sus report, the statistics of any given 1 city or village had to be picked out from scattered nI9cQS. CHANGES PROPOSED. census to publish for each State a bulletin which will contain at least the more important figures derived from the population census, both for counties, cities, and minor civil di- visions. Moreover, the facts avail or any given city which are con tained in this bulletin, will be all | published together in one place, one county or city appearing at the head of column, and the various sub- 1 jects being listed down the side of counties will require two pages to list. In this way, by reading down facing pages, the citizen of any coun- ty will have before him all the facts which the census publishes with re- gard to that county The data for this manner on the two pages. By turning a few pages and reading from he figures for his county with those of every other county in the State. A similar treatment will be given to It least the principal statistics of in- 1ividuaA cities ;
 e'The bulletins for the several | States, as first issued, will not, it { ormation which the census will ulti- i natelys publish with regard to that State or its large cities. It will con ain only the information which is population cards through the tAbu1at- ng machines This, however, in . yer be available with regard to | ounties and their minor civil divis- ons, and the smaller cities and viii l ages; for it will readily be under [ food that the census can not afford [ o present such elaborate statistics1 with regard to a county, a township, s o large city or State as a . ,ABLEs IN THE STATE BULLE- z
 TINS. 2
 Briefly, each of these bulletins will t ontain the following principal ta- d
 (1) The state-A table showing n he number of inhabitants of the f ensus to date, with the percentage f increase at each census.
 (2) Minor Civil Divisions-A ta- le showing the number of inhabit- D rats in each county and minor civil D ivision for each of the last three C ensuses. C
 (3) Incorporated Places.-A ta- e 1e showing the number of inhabit- | nts at each of the last three cen U uses for each incorporated city or J own.
 "These first three tables show only O ne number of inhabitants and no p etails with regard to their charac- d eristicS. tt
 (4) Counties in Detai1--The F 1urth table will show for each coun- le 7 all the facts with regard to the u characteristics of the population t hich the census proposes to publish g y counties, including various com b a risons befween the feures at +bo ci