The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-14
THE CENSUS OF OCCUPATIONS.

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The occupation question ii the
United States census population
schedule to be carried by the enumer.
ators during the thirteenth decennial
census, beginning April is next, ap.
plies to everybody living in the Unit.
ed States on the date mentioned,
which is the census day" and all the
population schedule questions relate
to it only
In it's printed instructions to emu.
merators the census bureau holds that
the occupation followed by 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 gainful oc-
cupation.
1t is pointed out, however, that only
gainful occupations are to be reported
By this is meant any employment,
work, profession, or vocation by which
the person working regularly earns
money or its equivalent. The fact that
a person has no gainful occupation
is to be noted on the schedule. If
person is only temporarily unem-
ployed on account of lack ef work,
or sickness, or other temporary rea-
son, the occupation which that per-
son usually follows is to be reported.
II a person has two occupations, the
enumeration must return only the more
important one-that is the one from
which the person gets the more mon,
ey IL 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 man as farmer" If he
gets most of his income from farming,
although he may also follow the oc-
cupation of a clergyman or preacher;
but they must return him as Clergy
man" if he gets more of his income
from that occupation.
In the case of woman doing house.
work In her own home, without salary
or wages, and having no other employ
ment, the entry is to be that she has
no occupation. But woman working
at Homework for wages, should be re-
turned as "housekeeper," Servant"
cook" or "chambermaid," as the case
may be, and the entry should state
the place where she works, as "pri-
vate 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 pursued in her
own home or outside. that occupation
should be returned For instance, a
woman who regularly takes in wash
ing should be reported as laundress"
or "washerwoman
A woman working regularly at out
door 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 a farm laborer.v 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. her
self, operates or runs farm should
be reported as farmer" and not as
a farm laboref.,''
II any child, of whatever age. is
regularly earning money, the employ
ment which he or she follows should be
returned as an occupation. This an.
plies also to child working for his
board away from home.
Children, or even adults, attending
school or college or any educational
and following no other en-
ployment, should be returned as hav-
ing no occupation. But If any person |
is attending school or college and at |
the same time is regularly earning
money at some gainful occupation, the
anumerators are to return that occu-