Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
CENSUS STARTS APRIL 2
WITH 100000 CANVASSERS
Printed Schedules and Sheets for CUES.
tioning Citizens, and Laws Requiring
Answers, Back EnumeratOrs.

temporarily not at work:
/. How many weeks since he Tor She)
has worked on his present JOB?
Q. Why was he not at work yesterday,
or in case yesterday was not regular
working day, why did he not work on
the last regular working day?
8. Did he lose a days pay by not
being at work?
4. How many days did he work last
week?
S. How many days in a full time
week?
The following questions will be asked
about a person usually employed, but
having no job of any kind at the time
the census is taken:
1. Is he able to work?
2. Is he looking for a job?
8. For how many weeks has he been
without Job?
4. Reason for being out of job, or
for losing his last job.
Basis for Future Estimates.
The day before the census is taken"
has been adopted by the Census Bureau
as a basis Of determining unemployment
because in many instances the census
taker will have to get the Information
from q woman member of the family
who happens to be at home when ne
calls. The male members of the family
may be away from home looking for
job and in such cases the woman viii
not be able to say whether her hus-
band or son has found a job and Is at
work that day. She will usually know
whether he worked on the previous day,
however.
THE census of unemployment" said
Mr.. Steuart, will furnish bench mark
to serve as fixed point from which
to measure the trend of unemployment
In succeeding months and years. It
will be a basis for future estimates, re-
lieving us from such wide uncertainty
as compelled President Harding's Con-
ference on Unemployment to report
that the unemployed numbered from
100000 to 5,500,000.
with the completion of this census
count the basic fact of the number Of
unemployed will be known, and the
data collected by such organizations as
the United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics and the Biennial Census of Man.
ufactureS will allow Of its revision and
continued effectiveness until again
checked out in the decennial census.
Determines Age Handicap.
1T will be possible to tabulate the
figures with respect to age so as to show
the percentage of unemployment Of age
groups. It is commonly asserted that
the worker who has reached middle age
is shelved, or at any rate Is greatly
handicapped In either seeking or re-
tanning job. Probably that is 50. But
how great is the handicap? We have
no figures. The census viii make 1t
possible to compare the percentage Of
alrRrgvN A~kv
and so, say with that among younger
men,"
In the white population Of the United
States as enumerated In the census Of
1920 there were 13,712,754 persons who
were born In foreign countries, and
there were 22,686, 204 persons born In
the United States whose parents were
born in foreign countries. These two
classes comprised 3S.5 per cent Of the
total white population.
To our foreign-born population Rus
STA contributed larger share than any
other Of the countries as they existed
before the World War, the total NUN.
Der OF persons born in Russia being
2,020,646; Germany ranked next, with
1895, 1854; then came italy, 1,6l5,l6O;
then Austria, LAS, 141 (of whom about
$4,000 were born within the confines
OF the present AuStria), and next Ire
land, 1,164,707. The coming census
will show the changes that are taking
place in the composition of our for.
eign-born population as the result of
immigration restriction and other In
fluenceS.
The amount of farm land owned bv
one person has nothing to do with the
dennitton Of q farm so far as the
Census Bureau is concerned. The cues.
ton is not how much land does he own.
put now much land does he operate or
farm.
Farm Must Be Three Acres.
No tract Of land of less than three
acres will be registered as q farm I'M
less it produced more than $3.50 worth
OF farm products last year. In the CEN
suS OF 1920 If a piece Of land Of less
tnan three acres was farmed by q man
VINO gave his entire time to the task
II was listed as q farm, regardless OF
now little 1t produced, but this year
none of these small tracts win Be
counted unless they produced 1850
worth Of products, regardless Of how
many people spent their full time cIii.
tivating the area
1t Is estimated that approximately
5000 tracts Of less than three acres in
the United States are farmed by In
dividualS who give their full time to
the occupation. This change In the
ference between the Census Bureaus
regulations for farm enumeration In
1890 from those Of 10 years ago.
There Is necessarily q borderland be.
tween what Is q farm and what Is not.
Small places on the edge of towns or
villages are often the homes Of city
workers who undertake to keep q COW.
chickens and probably cut q little hay
or raise a large garden or small crop.
II the agricultural products from
such a place amounted to more than
$3.50 in 1929, it will be returned as q
farm, regardless Of how much or how
little time the city worker gave to his
farming pursuits and regardless Of how
small the tract Of land tended. II q
man living on Fifth avenue raised more
than $3.50 worth of Strawberries or as
paragus on q lot 50x10O feet, his place
would be returned as farm. The value
Of the agricultural products Is the erie
terion.
6,S71,640 Farms in 1925.
In 1925, the last year In which q farm
census was taken In the United States,
there were 1851 farms Of less than
In the Nation was 6,371, $40.
The definition of the word family"
as it was understood in the DAYS Of
Abraham and the patriarchs viii be
used by the census-takers. II the head
Of family, his wife, sons, daughters,
daughters-in-law, relatives. servants
and dodgers are members of the same
and live on the same prem.
lseS, they will all be recorded In the
census as constituting one family.
The word family" for census pur-
poses means "a UrOilU Of uerS0ns livin0
together in the same dwelling place or
premises" DR.. Joseph A. Hill, acting d.
rector Of the Census Bureau, pointed
)ut, The persons in the group need not