The daily sentinel., 1910-04-08
TO RECEIVE
THE CENSUS SCHEDULES
Especial to The sentinel. !

| Special to The sentinel
Washington. April S.-Each head
OF family in a number of large cit
les will receive, few days prior to
April 5. when the United States CEN
sus begins, an advance population
schedule" containing all the ques-
tions which appear in the official
Population schedule obe carried by
the census takers.
These advance schedules are to be
flliel in by the heads of families or.
in their absence, by other members
Of their families, and the sched ules
viii be taken up by the enumerators
during the progress of the actual
enumeration.
This action on the part of the CEN
sus bureau is a complete innovation
and an important advance in Amer
| lean census methods of obtaining a
count of the population, and the bu-
reau authorities expect it to prove of
great practical and scientific value.
1t insures greater accuracy and
CON pleteness in the returns. as the
heads of the families, who are gener-
ally the most reliable sources of in
formation, are themselves given suf-
ficicnt opportunity in advance of the
enumeration to examine deliberately
questions. in past censuses it was
the case usually that the head of the
family was absent at work when the
enumerator called and reliance had
to be placed on other members of the
family, frequently servants or chill
dren, or on neighbors, none of whom
can be classed as dependable inform
ants.
The advance schedule will also un-
doubtedly prove of great assistance
| to the enumerators. Ii will enable
them to perform their work more ex-
peditiously and agreeably, and will
| lessen the number of cases involving
repeated calls by them.
| II is the intention of the census
authorities to confine the present
scope of this auxiliary method of pop
ulation enumeration to the large cit
les which. in the past, have contained
the greater number of absentee heads
of families.
| In a communication to the Head
of the family" printed on the back of
each schedule, Census Director Du-
rand states:
in accordance with the act of con-
gress approved July 2, 1909, the
enumeration of the population of the
|
An enumerator will call at your
house, or apartment, for the purpose
of obtaining the required information
concerning all persons belonging to
your household. 1t is necessary that
you should prepare the information
in advance of the enumerator's visit.
Please, therefore, answer all the
questions contained on this ad yance
| schedule for each member of your
| household and preserve 1t so that II
| can readily be given to the enumera-
tor when he calls. By doing this you
will not only aid greatly in the work
OF securing an accurate enumeration
of the population but will probably
save yourself much trouble, since IL
you do not do so, great deal of your
time will unavoidably be taken by the
| enumerator in securing the informa-
tion he must obtain, and he may have
to call on you several times.
| This schedule, as filled in by you,
should be given to the enumerator
when he calls. AS he has been given
detailed instructions, which it has not
been possible to put on this schedule,
concerning the exact manner in which
each question should be answered,
1t will be necessary for him to go over
the answers with you or with some
member of your family for the pur-
pose of making such additions or
changes as are called for by his in
structions. All such additions and
changes should be made by the emu
merator on this schedule or on his
official schedule before he leaves the
house. The advance schedule, wheth-
er filled in by you or not, should
then, in ali, cases, be given to the
enumerator to be forwarded to Wash
ington with his official schedule upon
which the corrected information for
all families in his district has been
| written.