Punch Cards in the Style Used in the U.S. Census of Population, 1900, IBM90916
date: label: date made
content: 1900-style
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: These paper twenty-four column punch cards are divided into fields used in the U.S. Census. Each card is marked: IBM190916. The fields match those used in the 1900 U.S. Census of Population. However, IBM did not exist as a company at that time.
label: Description
content: The fields are
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content: :• Race
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content: • Gender
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content: • Age
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content: • Marriage status
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content: • Number of pregnancies
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content: • Number of living children
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content: • Native or foreign born
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content: • Birthplace
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content: o Top code: states for natives
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content: o Bottom code: countries for foreign born
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content: • Father’s birthplace
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content: • Mother’s birthplace
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content: • Years in the US
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content: • Citizenship status
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content: • Occupation
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content: • Months unemployed
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content: • Years in school and literacy levels
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content: • English speaking
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content: References:
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content: Truesdell, Leon E. The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890-1940: With Outlines of Actual Tabulation Programs. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1965.
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content: Leon E. Truesdall, <I>The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1949</I>, Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1965, p. 131.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Bureau of the Census
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3098.03
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3098.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch cards, group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 8.2 cm; 6 11/16 in x 3 7/32 in