Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-27
THE CENSUS OF
 OCCUPATIONS Enumerators Questions Will Apply to All In United
 States. WOMEN ON THE FARMS Employer and EmpI0ye-Ot Sche- dule Questions-Many Details to
 Be Reviewed..
WOMEN ON THE FARMS

Washington, D. C., Feb. 26.-- The occupation" question in the United States census population schedule to be carried by the enumerators during the Thirteenth tDecennial Census, be- ginning April b, next, applies to ev- erybody 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 en-
 umerators the Census Bureau holds i that the occupation followed by a child or a woman is just as import ant, for census purposes, as the occu- l patton of a man. Therefore the emu merators are told never to take it for granted without inquiry that a
 woman or child old enough to work
 has no gainful occupation.
 i It is pointed out, however, that on-
 ly gainful occupations are to be re- ported. By this meant any employ ment, work, profession, or vocation by which the person working regular ly earns money or it's equivalent. The fact that person has no gainful oc- cupation is to be noted on the sched- ule. If a person is only temporarily unemployed on account of lack of work, or sickness, or other temporary reason, the occupation which that per son usually follows is to be report ed
 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 cannot be learned, then he is to return the one at which the person 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 fol- low the occupation of a clergyman or preacher; but they must return him as clergyman if he gets more of his income from that occupation.
 In the case of woman doing housework in her own nome, without salary or wages, and having no other employment, the entry is to be that she has no occupation. But woman
 working at housework for wages should be returned 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 woman,
 in addition to doing housework in her own home, regularly earns money by
 some other occupation, whether pur-
 sued in her own home or outside, that occupation should be returned. For ,, instance, a woman who regularly 1 takes in washing should be reported
 as '1aundress" or "waherwoman" Women Doing Farm Work.
 A women 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." The enumerators are to distinguish how ever, the women who work on the
 home farm from those who work away by writing either "home farm" or I working out," as the case may re- quire A woman who, herself, oper-
 ates or runs a farm should be report ed as a farmer and not as farm | laborer'
 If any child, of whatever age, is regularly earning money, the en- ployment which he or she follows must be returned as an occupation. This applies also to child working for 1 his board away from home.
 Children, or even adults, attending school or college or any educational , institution, and following no other employment, should be returned as having no occupation. But if any person is attending school or college and at the same time is regularly earning money at some gainful occu-