Marion progress., 1949-12-15
Census Army Makes Ready
For Barrage OF Questions

next April, but what you say will
be confidential.
Beginning April 1, an army of
100000 census enumerators will
start calling on people in every
city, town and farm community to
find out the nations 1850 popu-
lation and obtain housing and agri-
cultural information.
The Census bureau already has
prepared the basic questions for
the 18th 10-year census. Agricul-
tural census forms will be mailed
to farmers in most states in ad-
vance of the population enumera-
tion, and the completed forms will
be picked up when the enumera-
tors come around.
Hundreds of high speed tabula-
ton machines will sum up the mil
lions of facts collected by the
census field forces.
BASIC QUESTIONS
Basic population questions which
will be asked each person include
name, relation to head of house
hold, race, sex, martial status,
state or country of birth, citizen
ship status, and employment status
the preceding week Of every per-
son over IA years old, and the oc-
cupation, industry and class of
worker.
Every fifth person the govern
ment will ask what state and coun-
try he lived in a year earlier and
whether he lived on a farm. 1t will
ask country of birth of father and
mother, highest grade of school at
tended and school attendance.
Every fifth person IA Or over
will be asked the duration of en-
ployment and number of weeks
worked in 1949, income received
in 1949 from various sources, in
come received by relatives in the
same household and whether men
are war veterans.
Every 30th person IA or over
Uncle Sam will ask occupation, in
dustry and class of work of per-
sons who worked the previous
year but were not working or
looking for work the previous
week. It will also ask whether he
was ever married or married more
than once, years in present mar
tial status and number of children
born.
ABOUT DWELLINGS
For every dwelling unit the emu
merators will ask type of struc-
ture, condition, number of persons
in unit, number of rooms, water
supply, toilet facilities, bathing
equipment and whether it is occu-
pied by owner or tenant. They will
note if the house or apartment is
vacant.
Value of non-farm owner-occu-
pant units will be asked, number
Of dwelling units in the property
and whether mortgaged. Non-farm
renters will be asked their mon
thly rent, any amount paid in addi-
tion for electricity, fuel and wat
er and whether the rented units is
furnished.
For every fifth dwelling unit the
enumerators will get information
on the year it was built, heating
equipment, heating fuel, cooking
fuel, refrigeration equipment, kit
chen sink and whether there is
electric lighting, radio and televi-
sion set.
The basic questions to be an
swered by farmers will include
name, address, race, age, acres in
farm, acres owned, acres rented by
farmer, acres rented to others,
name and address of landlords and
acres operated by hired managers.
Farmers also will be asked the
number of acres irrigated, when
the farmer began to operate the
farm, number Of days worked off
the farm, whether farmer has
other income, value of sale from
nursery and greenhouse products,
production and sales of each field
vegetable and berry crop, receipts
from grazing privileges, number of
fruit and nut trees and income
from sales of fruit and nuts.
Farmers will be asked the value
of forest products cut or obtained,
number of livestock and poultry,
number and value of livestock sold,
production and value of wool, num-
Der of cows and milk produced,
number of sows and gifts farrow-
ing.
Number of livestock butchered
on farm, quantity sold and a.
mounts received from milk, eggs
and poultry, whether bees are kept
and honey produced, whether the