Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-04
Miserllaaeous 8eading.
CENSUS OF OCCUPATIONS.
Enumerators' Questions Will Apply te
Everybody In the United States.

Everybody In the United States.
The occupation" question in the
United States census population sched-
ule to be carried by the enumerators
during the Thirteenth Decennial CEN
sus, beginning 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 it's printed instructions to enum-
orators the census bureau holds that
the occupation followed by a child or
a woman is just as important, for GEN.
man. Therefore the enumerators are
told never to take it for granted with
out inquiry that a woman or child old
enough to work has no gainful occupa-
ton.
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 it's equivalent. The fact that
a person has no gainful occupation is
to be noted on the schedule. If a per-
son is only temporarily unemployed on
account of lack of work, or sickness, or
other temporary reason, the Occupa-
ton which that person usually follows
is to be reported.
If a person has two occupations, the
enumerator must return only the 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 person
spends the more time. AS an illustra-
ton, tine enumerators are told to re-
turn a man as a farmer" if he gets
most of his income from farming, al
though he may also follow the occupa-
tion Of a clergyman or preacher; but
they must return him as a clergy
man" if he gets more of his income
from that occupation.
In the case Of a 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 housework 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 private
family" hotel" or boarding house"
Or If a woman, in addition to doing
housework in her own home, regularly
earns money by some other occupation,
whether pursued in her own nome or
outside, that occupation should be re-
turned. For instance, woman who
regularly takes in washing should be
reported as "laundress" or "washerwo-
man."
Women Doing Farm Work.
A woman working regularly at out
door farm work, even though she works
on the home farm for her husband,
son, or other relative and does not re-
ceive money wages, should be returned
as a farm laborer" The enumerators
are to distinguished, however, the wo-
men who work on the home farm from
those who work away from home by
writing either home farm" or work
ing out" as the case may require. A
woman who herself, operates or runs
a farm should be reported as a far
mer," and not as farm laborer."
If any child, Of whatever age, is
regularly earning money, the employ
ment which he or she follows should be
returned as an occupation. This ap-
plies also to a child working for his
board away from home.
Children, or even adults, attending
school or college or any educational in
stitution, 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, tho
patton. In either case they must in
dicate the fact of school or college at
tendance.
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 occu-
patton in which they are so employed,
even though they receive no wages. In
the case of children who work for their
own parents on a farm, that fact Is to
be entered as 'home farm" But for
children who work as farm laborers
for others the enumerator's entry is to
be working out"
Employer and Employee.
The census bureau instructs the CEN
sus takers that an employer is one
who employs helpers, otner than do
mestic servants, in transacting his own
business. The term employer does not
include the superintendent, agent,
manager, or other persons employed to
manage an establishment or business;
and it does not include the foreman of
a room, the boss of a gang, or the coal
miner who hires his helper. All such
should be returned as employees, for,
while any one of these may employ
persons, none of them does so in trans
acting his own business. Thus no in
dividual working for a corporation,
either as an officer or otherwise, should
be returned as an employer.
4 person employing domestic SER
wants in his own home, but not en-
ploying any helpers in his business, is
not To be considered as an employer.
But, on the other hand, person who
is the proprietor Of hotel or boarding
house and employs servants in run
ming that hotel or boarding house,
should be- returned as an employer, be-
cause he employs these servants in his
business.
An employee is defined as any person
who works for wages or salary and
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