The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-25
THE CENSUS OF
 OCCUPATIONS
Enumerators' Question s Will Apply to Everybody in the United States.

L r The soccupation'' question in the United States census popula tion sched-
 ule to be carried by the enumerators during the thirteenth decennial 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 relate to it only. In it's printed instructions to enunl- orators the Census Bureau holds that the occupation followed by a child or a woman is just as the occupation of 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 gain- full occupation.
 It 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 CT it's equivalent. The fact that a person has no grainful occupation is to be noted on the schedule. If a
 person is only temporarily unemployed
 on account of lack of work. or sick ness or other temporary reason. the occupation which tbat person usually follows is to be reported.
 If a person has two occupations, the enumerator must return, only the more
 
 which the person gets the more mon- ey. 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 enume tors are told to return a man as a farmer" if he gets most of his income from farming, although he may also follow the oc-. cupation of clergyman or preacher, but they must return him as cler- gyman'' if he gets more of his in- come 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 nent, the entry is to be that she has no occupation. But woman work ing at housework for wages should be returned as "housekeeper, servant. ''cook,'' or s'chambermaid,' as the case may be- and the entry should state the place where she works. as tpri- vate 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 pursued in her own home or outside, that occupation
 should be returned. For instance a
 woman who regularly takes in washing should be reported as slaundress" or
 'swasherwoman."
 WOMEN DOING FARM WORK. 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 lsborer.'' 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
 sshome farm or working out,'' as
 the case may require. A woman who.
 herself operates or runs farm should
 be reported as s.farmer,'' and not as farm laborer.''
 If any child, of whatever age, is reg
 ularly earning money, the employ
 ment which he or she follows should
 be returned as an occupation. This
 applies to a child working for his
 board way 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 per
 son is attending school or college and at the same time is regularly earning
 money at some gainful occupation, the
 enumerators are to return that occupa- ton. Tn either case they must indicate the fact of school or college attend ance.
 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. Tn the case of children who work for their own parents on a farm, that fact
 is to be entered as "home fern."s But for children who work as farm labor CTS for others the enumerator's entry is to be working out"
 EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE. The Census Bureau instructs the census takers that an employer is one who employs helpers, other than dom
 estic servants in transacting his own
 business The term employer does not
 include the superintedent, agent, man ager. or other persons employed to manage an establishment. or business;
 and it does not include the foreman
 of room the boss of a gang, or the
 coal n'iner who hires his helper. All such should be returned as employees.
 for, while any one of these may em- ploy persons, none of them does SO in