The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-06

presenting certain classifcations | there will be more extensive use of 1 percentages, which facilitate compar-
 lson between one county and another,
 and also more extensive presentation l of the statistics of earlier censuses | for comparison with those of the 1 present census. 1 COUNTY.
 Taking up the form of these county tables somewhat more fully, it l is the purpose to present at the top of the column for each county the total number of inhabitants at each census from 1870 to 1910, with the | increase and the percentage of in
 crease from 1890 to 1900 and from The urban population of the county will then be distinguished
 fined as including all places of 2,5oO lpossibly to beSchanged to 2,0OO) in hab1tants or over, and a comparison | will be made with the census of 1900 which was never shown for individ- ual counties before, is important for the growth of the county is in it's cities or in it's farming population, or what part of the growth is in each. The density of population per square
 mile will also be shown for each county.
 Next will be presented the statistics | Ol I1S pOpu1aL1On classified according to Color, and, for the whites, accord Eing to General Nativity, i. e., native foreign berth. The white population for each census from 1890 to 1910 will
 be compared with the negro popula-
 tion. The distinction of blocks and
 mulattoes for 1910 and also the figures
 ese, and Indian combined) follow. The
 white population will be distributed
 according to the classes: CD Native
 with native parents, (2) native with
 hOfh afcrT7
 with one parent native and the other
 foregn born, and (4) foreign born. and
 comparisons will be made with previ-
 ous cenSuSes There will also be a presentation showing the percentage of the total poulation represented at each of the last two censuses by the sev- termined by both color and general nativity. Such percentage comparisons l have never heretofore been present ed | for countries and will have the great l advantage of enabling the people of 1 each county to know what classes of l the population are relatively gaining 1 or losing and how much change has | taken place.
 CLASSIFICATION BY SEEK.
 There will next be presented for l each country the population classified | according to Sex. the figures for the | whites of each sex being separatedI from those for the negroes.
 'Under the next heading will be | shown the number of foreign-born l Wh1L6 1I1haD1tanfS distributed accOrd-t ing to the Country in which they were | born; and also the number of whites | born in this country, but with foreign parents, distribut ed according to the | country in which their parents were born.
 .'The various figures with regard to mentioned, will it is expected, extend the length of one page of the bulletin The remaining facts regarding the + country will be presented on the op- pOsife. TlaRH i-
 .'At the top of the second page there will appear the statistics for Male of voting age, showing the total number and their classification according toj color and Gin the case of wfite) native or foreign birth and native or foreign parentage, together with percentages at the censuses of 1910 and 1900 For the white population born abroad there will also be presented figures showing | the number and per cent who are fully natura1iZed, who have taken out their first papers seeking naturalization, or who are aliens who have taken out no papers.
 STATISTICS OF ILLITERACY.
 Next will be presented county sta tistics of IlIiteracy, showing the mum Der of flliterates among various classes stitute of the total population of the given class. These statistics will re-. ! late CD to all persons 10 years of age and over, which Elic gives the measure { voting age only; and (S) to persons rom 10 to 20 years of age; these figures being of significance in determining the degree to which the schools at present Ire succeeding in educating the child ( 'en of the county, The relative Hitter f acy of the different classes of the pop Ilation accordine to color and +o native ! ,r foreign birth will also be shown. . The percentages of i11iteracy by count . ,nly absolute numbers being given. ( The figures for iIliteracy of children 0 to IA are also an innovation. r SCHOOL tAGR AND ATTENDANCE. c
 s'Finally, for each county will be pre- ented statistics of School Age and At endance At ethe census of 1900 the r lumber Of persons of school age was resented in one table, and the num- l ger attending school in an entirely diff erent table. In the proposed county I able for the present census the two \ cts of figures will be presented side Il " side and the percenta of children \ f school age who attend school will a e shown. The table will distinguish I hi1dren under four age groups: Six s o years, 10 to IA, 15 to IT, and IS to Il o. since there are wide differences in 8 he proportion of school attendance at 1 $ ifferent ages. It will also compare he school attendance of whites and E whites. z
 STATISTICS OF CITIES. N
 t"The table for incorporated places f 2,500 inhabitants or more, which will & e similar in form to the table for ounties, above described, but more ondensed <. The limit of population, a place to admission to this able may be reduced to- 2,000 The able will cover all the general sub ects cover9d by the county table, .ex- ept the subject of country of birth | the foreign born and of foreign-born arents of the native born; but less etail will be presented with regard , each subject. ..It will be understood that although Ee ss detail is given with regard to