The Thirteenth United States Census The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution. The population is enumerated every 10 years and the results are used to allocate Congressional seats , electoral votes, and government program funding. Some states or local jurisdictions also conduct local censuses, conducted by the Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data. As part of the United States Department of Commerce, the Census Bureau serves as a leading source of data about America's people and economy on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated In mathematics and theoretical computer science, the broadest and most abstract definition of an enumeration of a set is an exact listing of all of its elements . The restrictions imposed on the type of list used depend on the branch of mathematics and the context in which one is working. In more specific settings, this notion of enumeration during the 1900 Census The twelfth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on 1 June 1900, determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 Census. The 1910 Census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation.
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Census questions
The 1910 census collected the following information[1]:
- address
- name
- relationship to head of family
- sex
- race
- age
- marital status and, if married, number of years of present marriage
- for women, number of children born and number now living
- place of birth and mother tongue of person, and their parents
- if foreign born, year of immigration; whether naturalized; whether able to speak English and, if unable, language spoken
- occupation, industry and class of worker
- if an employee, whether out of work during year
- literacy
- school attendance
- whether home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether mortgaged
- whether farm or house
- whether a survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy
- whether blind, deaf or dumb
Full documentation for the 1910 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series IPUMS is an acronym for the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the world's largest and most comprehensive individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States and international (IPUMS-International) census records. The records are converted into a consistent format and made available to researchers.
Data availability
Microdata In the study of survey and census data, microdata is information at the level of individual respondents. For instance, a national census might collect age, home address, educational level, employment status, and many other variables, recorded separately for every person who responds; this is microdata from the 1910 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series IPUMS is an acronym for the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the world's largest and most comprehensive individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States and international (IPUMS-International) census records. The records are converted into a consistent format and made available to researchers. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System The National Historical Geographic Information System is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000. The project has created one of the largest collections in the world of statistical census information, much of which was.
Notes
- ^ "Library Bibliography Bulletin 88, New York State Census Records, 1790-1925". New York State Library The New York State Library is part of the New York State Education Department. The Library and its sister institutions, the New York State Museum and New York State Archives, are housed in the Cultural Education Center. The building is part of the Empire State Plaza, a large complex of state government offices in downtown Albany, New York, United. October 1981. pp. 45 (p. 51 of PDF). http://purl.org/net/nysl/nysdocs/9643270.
External links
- Historic US Census data
- 1910 Census: 1910 United States Census for Genealogy & Family History Research
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| This article relating to the history The first residents of what is now the United States emigrated from Asia over 15,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska. Archaeological evidence of these peoples, the ancestors of the Native Americans dates to 14,000 years ago of the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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