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Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Guide
1880 Census Reports
- Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
- * Questionnaire description and Instructions to Enumerators - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
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- Statistics of the Population of the United States
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:880/1 (reclassed from
I11.5:1)
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, States, Territories, Counties, Civil Divisions less than counties
- * CONTENTS: Presents 36 tables on various topics:
- - Population, 1860-1880, for States and Territories for
White, Colored, Japanese, Chinese, and Civilized Indian
- - Population by County for the same groups and years
- - Population for Cities and towns over 4000 population for
White and Colored (1870-1880), and Native and Foreign (1870-1880)
- - Nativity at various geographies
- - Sex and Nativity, aggregate
- - Population by Ages, Special and Select
- - Areas, Dwellings, and Families
- - Foreign Parentage
- - Population of Alaska
- - Occupational tables
- - Newspapers and Periodicals
- - Public Schools
- - Illiteracy
- - Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
- Report of the Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United
States, Pt. 1. Statistics of Deaths by States, Principal Cities,
etc.
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Census Bureau PDF file
- Report of the Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United
States, Pt. 2. Statistics of Deaths by Locality, Cause, etc.
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Census Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:880/11 and 12 (reclassed from
I11.5:11 and 12)
- * Most tables have 1880 statistics only; the first table has 1860-1880
data
- - State and 50 Principal Cities Tables
- - Chinese and Indian tables
- - Causes of Death
- - Morbidity or Sick Rates
- - Births, Birth Rates, and Life Tables
- - Ages of Living Population
- Report of the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes of the
Population of the United States
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Census Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:880/21 (reclassed from
I11.5:21)
- * Contents: Statistics at various geographic levels on
- - Insane
- - Idiotic
- - Blind
- - Deaf and Dumb
- - Homeless Children
- - Paupers
- - Crime
- Compendium of the Tenth Census, Pt. 1
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- Compendium of the Tenth Census, Pt. 2
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:880/23 and 24 (reclassed from
I11.2:C73/2
- * Contents: Statistics at various geographic levels on
- - Population
- - Agriculture
- - Manufactures
- - Power Used in Manufactures
- - Mining
- - Railroads, Steam Craft, Canals, Telegraphs, and
Telephones
- - Occupations
- - Fisheries
- - Foreign Parentage
- - Areas, Dwellings, and Families
- - Alaska
- - Life Insurance
- - Fire and Marine Insurance
- - Valuation and Taxation
- - Public Indebtedness
- - Newspapers and Periodicals
- - Public Schools
- - Illiteracy
- - Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
- - Mortality
From the 1870 Census forward, the number of published volumes grew each
decade. A comprehensive list of all these volumes is beyond the scope of this
guide that focuses on the volumes addressing population and housing
topics.
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