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Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Guide
1920 Census Reports
- Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
- * Questionnaire description and Instructions to
Enumerators - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
- * Form of Schedule for Enumeration of
Population - from 1920 Population Census, vol. 2 (C3.28/5:2)
- * Instructions to Enumerators - from 1920
Population Census, vol. 2 (C3.28/5:2)
- Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, Population,
in 4 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.28/5:1-4
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, Divisions, States, Territories, Urban/Rural,
Cities, Central Cities, Metropolitan Districts (200,000+), Cities and
Incorporated Places (25,000+ , 10-25,000, 5-10,000, 2,500-5,000)
- * CONTENTS: Vol. 1, Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, has 54
tables, including:
- - Population and Area, 1850-1920, for Counties
- - Population, 1900-1920, for Urban & Rural portions of
Counties
- - Population, 1900-1920, for Incorporated Places
- - Population, 1920, for Wards of Incorporated Places
- - Population, 1900-1920, for Cities and Incorporated Places
by size:
- - 25,000 or more
- - 10,000 to 25,000
- - 5,000 to 10,000
- - 2,500 to 5,000
- - Population, 1900-1920, for County Minor Civil
Divisions
- - Population, 1920 and earlier, for Outlying Possessions by
Civil Division
- Vol. 2, General Report and Analytical Tables, contains 16 chapters
on:
- - Color or Race, Nativity, and Parentage
- - Sex Distribution
- - Age Distribution
- - Marital Condition
- - State of Birth of the Native Population
- - Country of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population
- - Year of Immigration of the Foreign-Born Population
- - Citizenship of the Foreign-Born Population
- - Country of Origin of the Foreign White Stock
- - Mother Tongue of the Foreign White Stock
- - School Attendance
- - Illiteracy
- - Inability to Speak English
- - Dwellings and Families
- - Ownership of Homes
- - General Statistics of Population, by Counties
- Vol. 3, Composition and Characteristics of the Population by States
contains:
- - 13 tables per state
- - Data reported for state, county, city, and wards
- - Subject matter is that given above for v. 2
- - Territory data for Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guan,
American Samoa, Panama Canal Zone
- Vol. 4, Occupations, contains 8 chapters:
- - Enumeration and Classification of Occupations
- - Number and Sex of Occupied Persons
- - Color or Race, Nativity, and Parentage of Occupied
Persons
- - Age of Occupied Persons
- - Children of Gainful Occupations
- - Marital Condition of Occupied Women
- - Males and Females in Selected Occupations
- - Occupation Statistics for Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico
- Abstract of the Fourteenth Census of the U.S.
- U.S. Documents C3.28/7:1920
- * Summarizes data on
- - Population
- - Occupations
- - Agriculture
- - Irrigation
- - Drainage
- - Manufactures
- - Mines and Quarries
- Fourteenth Census of the United States: Statistical
Atlas
- U.S. Documents C3.2:At 6/1925
- * Presents data on
- - Population
- - Occupations
- - Agriculture
- - Manufacturing
- - Mines and Quarries
- - Cotton
- - Encumbered Homes
- - Statistics of States
- - Statistics of Cities
- - Vital Statistics
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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