The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-12-09
In approximately one month.
Field Personnel Required

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The working unit In the vast
task OF demonstrating will be the
Census District. There will be about
$50 OF these Census Districts, COR
responding generally 10 Congress
sional districts except where the
most efficient administration re-
quires variance. A District Super
visor will be In charge OF each Cen
sus District. He will open a local
Office later In December. 1889 or
early In January. 1910. and employ
the necessary staff to take the CEN
sus In his district.
To train the $50 District Supervi-
sors IL demonstrating and census
procedures, picked group OF
more than 100 men from all parts
OF the country Is now being given
special course Of instruction In
Washington. Those VINO pass the
examination will be sent out as
Area Managers 10 the 1913 Census
Areas, each to direct the training
OF from five to seven District Super
yisors and to act as regional man
ayers between them and the Gen.
Gus Bureau in Washing ,on.
The $50 districts have been brok-
en- into enumeration districts OF
which there will be $4,000. General
ly speaking, there will be one emu
merator In each OF these districts,
bui In certain regions one erume-
rator will cover more than one dis
trict. Therefore, about l2l00c emu
merstors will be used for the Popu-
lation and Farm Census. These emu
merators, as well as clerks, stero-
graphers, interpreters and other
held workers, will not be selected
until 1910. They will be selected
locally. Applicants should Nor
write 10 Washington. They should
await the opening OF local Offices,
which will be announced in the To-
cal newspapers, and then apply to
the local office for application
blanks and general information coz
corning rates Of pay, length OF time
the job will last etc. Civil Service
status is not required for census
work In the field (outside Wash
irgton). Tests will be given in the
local Offices however to determine
the qualifications OF applicants.
Men and women will be eligible
for census work on equal terms.
War veterans or their widows are
given preference when equally
we'll qualified with others.
Census workers will be required
to devote full time 10 census work,
and will be subject TO the Hatch
Act specifically forbidding Federal
employees from taking any active
part In political campaigns during
the entire period OF their employ
ment by the Census Bureau.
New Material In 1910 Census
Earlier censuses have concern
ed themselves principally with mea-
surfing quantitatively the expansion
OF the country In population. terri
tory ard resources. Now, with in
creasing evidences OF national ma
turity. with area static, ind with
population increases slowed down.
Census officials feel that the 1910
Census should include the gather
irg OF information which would
throw light on internal social and
economic problems.
The population scheduled for
1910 will, therefore, concern itself
with working status. hours worked,
unemployment ard usual occupa-
tons. 1t will for the first time seek
information on the amount OF wag-
es or salary for the past IL mon
tbs. II will concern itself with mi
grafton, requiring an indication Of
where the respondents lived Ave
years ago. 1t will attempt to mea-
sure the degree OF education and
find out the highest school or coll
lege grade completed. The ques-
tion on illiteracy will be eliminated
because illiteracy in the United
State has almost become a negative
except among the aged.
The approximately 20 questions
TO be Included In the housing sche-
dule will concern themselves with
the type ard age OF structure, the
number OF rooms: conveniences in
the home; II radio Ia owned:
status and home finance:
owners estimate OF valuation: and
estimated rental value.