The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-24
THE CENSUS Of De-
CUPAT|ONS
ENUMERATORS' QUESTIONS WILL
APPLY TO EVERYBODY IN THE
UNITED STATES-INSTRUCTION
FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU

The OccupaIlOn question IN the
United States census population
schedule to be carried by the enum-
orators during the Thirteenth Decen-
NAL Census, 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 re-
late to it only.
In it's printed instructions to emu
merators the Census Bureau holds
that the occupation followed by a
child or a woman is just as impor-
tant, for census purposes, as the oc-
cupation of a man. Therefore, the
enumerators are told never to take
it for granted without inquiry that
a woman or child old enough to work
has no gainful occupation.
1t is pointed out, however, that
only gainful occupations are to be re-
ported. By this is meant any en-
ployment, work, profession, or voca-
ton by which the person working
regularly ears money or its equiva-
lent. The fact that person has no
gainful occupation is to be noted on
the schedule If a person is only
temporarily unemployed on account
of lack of work, sickness, or other
temporary reason, the occupation
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 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 occupation of 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 house
work in her own home, without SAL
airy or wages, and having no other
employment, the entry is to be that
she has no occupation. But woman
working at house work for wages
should be returned as "housekeeper,"
servant" "cook," or chamber
maid" as the case may be, and the
entry should state the place where
she works, as private family "ho-
tel" or boarding hourse." Or If a
woman, In addition to doing house
work in her own home, regularly
ears money by some other occupation,
whether pursued in her own home or
outside, that occupation should be
returned. For instance, woman
who regularly takes in washing
should be reported as "laundress" or
WdSUoTWOuIdu.
Women Doing Farm Work.
A woman working regularly at
outdoor farm work, even through she
works on the home farm for her
husband, son, or other relative and
does not receive money wages, should
be returned as farm laborer."
The enumerators are to distinguish,
however, 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.
herself, operates or runs a farm
should be reported as farmer"
and not as farm laborer."
If any child, of whatever age, is
regularly earning money. the en-
ployment which he or she follows
should be returned as an occupation.
This applies also to a child working
for 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-
patton, the enumerators are to return
that occupation. In either case they
must indicate the fact of school or
college attendance.
ents at home merely on general
household work or at odd times on
other work are to be reported as
having no occupation. But children
who materially assist their parents in
the performance of work other than
household work should be reported
as having the occupation 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"
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