The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-21
There are 10000 Men and Women in
the State Who viii Take Fed
eraI Census After They Re-
ceive instructions.
WORK STARTS JANUARY
II VIII Take Enumerators Two Weeks
in Cities and One Month in the
Rural Communities to
M Complete Task.

With the appointment of practically
all the supervisors of census for the
state of Iowa, the bureau of census
has now turned it's attention to ap'
proving the "enumerators" to be Sc
lected by the district supervisors
preliminary to sending out complete
Instructions to the army of 10000
men and women who will take the
next cennial census, beginning Janu-
airy 2, 1920.
The office OF supervisors will con-
tinue for period of seven months.
The compensation allotted by law is
81. 500 plus 81 for each thousand or
major fraction of a thousand popula-
ton enumerated. Clerk hire and
other necessary expenses will be
paid by the government.
The enumerators will begin work
IN practically all localities on Janu-
airy 2, and will finish in approx
mately two weeks in cities and one
month in rural communities. In ad'
dition to the detailed inquiry in re-
gard to the number, composition and
Z characteristics of the population. the
census will include canyasses OF agrf
culture, of manufacturing industries.
I OF mines and quarries, Of oil and gas
wells, and of forestry and forest
products.
What They Ask.
The information sought from each
household will comprise the follow
ing: Place of abode, relationship to
head of family, color, sex, age, con-
nubial condition, place of birth, place
! Of birth of parents, nationality or
mother tongue of all persons born in
1 foreign countries, nationality or
mother tongue of parents of foreign
4 birth, number of years in the United
States, citizenship, occupation, wheth
er or not employer or employe,
whether or not engaged in agricul-
ture, school attendance, literacy and
tenure of home and the encumbrance
thereon.
The enumerator will visit each
home or other dwelling place, such
as hotels, boarding houses, etc. and
procure the foregoing data from the
head of the household, or some per-
son qualified to give the lnfo. nation
Each person is to be enumerated at
the place where he or she regularly
sleeps, not where employed or where
temporarily sojourning. "Floaters'
having no regular or fixed abiding
place will be enumerated as resi-
dents of the locality in which they
are found when the census is taken.
Valuable Information.
Valuable information will be gath
cred by the census enumerators on
the agricultural situation Each
farmer visited will be asked to fur
nish acreage of farm property and
woodland; value of farm and i'm
provements, and the encumbrance
thereon, and number of live stock
and other farm products for the year
ending December 81, 1919.
Similar information data will be
sought in the manufacturing census,
which is to be taken by a special
field force of 1 500 agents. The in
formation obtained will cover the
name and location of the establish
ment, character and kinds Of goods
manufactured, amount of capital in
vested. number of proprietors, firm
members, co-partners or officers, with
their salaries, quantity and cost Of
materials used in manufactures,
character and quantity of power and
machinery uSeu, diNi Clle 9uahliIy anu
value of products turned out.
The data to be compiled by the
bureau of census through the forth
coming canvas will provide much in
formation of value in a statistical
way. For example, the ratio Of males
III females in the country at large
and in the various localities will be
shown. as well as the age distribu-
h. -
literacy, the distribution OF negroes
and the other no-white elements, the
number OF distribution of the foreign
stock in the United States, the extent
of interstate migration, and the dis
tribution of the population as re
# CARDS occupations. The coming cen
sus will show a population in the