The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-14
EACH MAN IS OWN ENUMERATOR
Government Seeks to Secure Better
Information by Sending Thousands
/ of Blanks to Heads of Families in
I the City.

prior to April Is, when the United
States Census begins, an advance
population schedule" containing all
the questions which appear in the of
fetal population schedule to be car.
ried by the census takers.
| These advance schedules are to be
filled in by the heads Of families or,
in their absence, by other members
of their families, and the schedules
will be taken up by the enumerators
during the progress of the actual
enumeration.
This action on the part OF the Census
Bureau is complete innovation and
an important advance in American
census methods of obtaining count
of the population, and the bureau auth
critics expect it to prove of great prae-
teal and scientific value.
It insures greater accuracy and com
pleteness in the returns, as the heads
Of the families, who are generally the
most reliable sources of information,
are themselves given sufficient oppor-
tunitv in advance of the enumeration
to examine deliberately and to answer
exactly the census questions. In past
censuses it was the case usually that
the head of the family was absent at
work when the enumeration called and
reliance had to be placed on other
members of the family, frequently SER
wants or children, or on neighbors,
none of whom can be classed as de-
pendable informants.
The advance schedule will also I'M
doubtedly prove of great assistance TO
the enumerators. 1t will enable them
to perform their work more expedit-
iously and agreeably, and will lessen
the number Of cases involving re-
peated calls by them.
1t is the intention Of the census
authorities to confne the present scope
Of this auxiliary method Of population
enumeration to the large cities which,
in the past, have contained the greater
number of absentee heads Of families
In communication to the Head of
the family" printed on the back of
each schedule, Census Director Dur
and states;
i"In accordance with the act of Con-
gress approved July 9, 1909, the enum-
GRAFTON Of the population of the United
States will begin on April Is. An emu
merator will call at your house, or
apartment, for the purpose of obtain
ing the required information concern
ing all persons belonging to your
household. 1t is necessary that you
should prepare the information in adj |
vance Of the enumerator's visit.
Please, therefore, answer all the dues- |
| tions contained on this advance SEIZED |
ule for each member of your household |
and preserve it so that it can readily |
be given to the enumeration when ne |
calls. BY doing this you will not only |
aid greatly in the work Of securing an
accurate enumeration Of the popula- |
ton but will probably save yourself |
much trouble, since If you do not do |
so, a great deal Of your time will I'M
avoidably be taken by the enumerator
in securing the information he must |
obtain, and he may have to call on you |
several times
t'This schedule, as filed in by you |
should be given to the enumeration
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, it |
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 |
struetions. All such additions and |
changes should be made by the enumer- |
ator On this schedule or on his official |
schedule before he leaves the house. |
The advance schedule, whether filed in |
| by you or not, should then, in all cases, |
| be given to the enumerator to be for |
warded to Washington with his official |
schedule upon which the corrected in
formation for all families in his dis
trict has been written.
on the schedule, which emphatically |
on the schedule, which emphatically |
states that you can not possibly be |
harmed in any way by giving infor-
nation to the census.
! Another section of the, back page of |
the schedule is devoted to brief in
struetions to govern the head of the
family in filing the schedule. A third |
section contains the complete text of |
the president s census proclamation.
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