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- NC State University Libraries Guide to Census Data Resources - Provides links to online and other electronic data sources.
- US Census Bureau PDF publications
- Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
- * Questionnaire description and Instructions to Enumerators - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
- * Form of Schedule for Enumeration of Population - from 1930 Population Census, vol. 2, pt. 8 (C3.37/5:P81/v.2)
- * Instructions to Enumerators - from 1930 Population Census, vol. 2, pt. 8 (C3.37/5:P81/v.2)
- Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population, 6 vols. in 7
- U.S. Documents C3.37/5:P81/v.1-6
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, Divisions, States, Territories, Counties, Townships or other Minor Civil Divisions; Urban/Rural; Cities and other Incorporated Places
- * CONTENTS: Vol. 1, Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, has 16 tables in the U.S. summary section.
- * Most of vol. 1 contains data by state in 6 tables:
- - Population, 1790-1930, for state
- - Population, 1790-1930, for principal cities
- - Area and Population, 1890-1930, for counties
- - Population, 1910-1930, for minor civil divisions of counties
- - Population, 1920-1930, for incorporated places
- - Population, 1930, for wards of cities 5,000+
- Vol. 2, General Report - Statistics by Subject, contains 14 chapters on:
- - Urban and Rural Population, Metropolitan Districes, and Center of Population
- - Color or Race, Nativity, and Parentage
- - Sex Distribution
- - State of Birth of the Native Population
- - Country of Birth of the Foreign Born
- - Country of Origin of the Foreign Born
- - Mother Tongue of the Foreign-born White Population
- - Citizenship of the Foreign Born
- - Year of Immigration of the Foreign Born
- - Age Distribution
- - Marital Condition
- - School Attendance
- - Illiteracy
- - Inability to Speak English
- Vol. 3, Reports by States, Showing the Composition and Characteristics of the Population for Counties, Cities, and Townships or Other Minor Civil Divisions. 2 vols.
- * Contains 31 summary and detailed United States tables
- * 25 tables with State data
- * 13 tables with data for Cities 100,000+
- * 23 tables for each State, including data on:
- - Population, 1890-1930, urban/rural
- - Population, 1910-1930, by color, nativity, and sex
- - Population, 1920-1930, for military age males
- - School attendance, 1920-1930
- - Illiteracy, 1920-1930
- - Marital condition, 1920-1930
- - Foreign white stock, 1920-1930
- - Persons 10+ gainfully occupied, 1930
- - Population, 1930, for counties and cities 10,000+ by age, color, nativity, and sex
- - Composition of population, 1930, for counties, farm/non- farm, cities 10,000+ and incorporated places 2500-10,000
- - Population, 1910-1930, of Indians, Chinese, and Japanese; and Mexicans, 1930
- - Population, 1930, by sex, color, age, etc., for minor civil divisions, incorporated places, 1000-2,500, and cities, 50,000+, by wards
- Vol. 4, Occupations, by States
- * contains 57 United States summary tables on:
- - Sex and Occupation of Gainful Workers
- - Color and Nativity of Gainful Workers
- - Age of Gainful Workers
- - Marital Condition of Gainfully Occupied Women
- - Children in Gainful Occupation
- - Statistics for Cities of 25,000 to 100,000
- * 25 tables for individual states on the same six topics.
- Vol. 5, General Report on Occupations, contains 7 chapters on:
- - Enumeration and Classification of Occupations
- - Sex and Occupation of Gainful Workers
- - Color and Nativity of Gainful Workers
- - Age of Gainful Workers
- - Marital Condition of Gainfully Occupied Women
- - Children in Gainful Occupation
- - Gainful Workers by Industry and Occupation
- Vol. 6, Families: Reports by States, giving statistics for Families, Dwellings and Homes, by Counties, for Urban and Rural Areas, and for Urban Places of 2,500 or More
- * Contains summary and detailed tables for the United States, Divisions and States, and Principal Cities
- * Has, for each State, 24 tables including:
- - Families by color and nativity of head
- - Tenure of farm and nonfarm homes
- - Families by tenure, by size, and median size
- - Nonfarm homes by value, and median value
- - Families classified by number of children, by gainful workers, and by lodgers
- - Quasi-family groups by type
- - Families having radio sets
- - Classification of families
- - by county
- - cities 10,000 to 100,000
- - incorporated places 2,500 to 10,000
- - wards of cities 100,000+
- Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Outlying Territories and Possessions
- U.S. Documents C3.37/5:T27
- * Reports data for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Panama Canal
- * Contents, in 43 tables per territory:
- - Number and Distribution of Inhabitants
- - Composition and Characteristics of the Population
- - Occupations
- - Unemployment
- - Agriculture
- Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Unemployment, in 2 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.37/5:Un2/v.1-2
- * Vol. 1 has 45 United States summary tables, and 13 tables per state
- - Reports Unemployed persons in up to 7 classes
- * Vol. 2, General Report, contains 5 chapters:
- - Unemployment by occupation
- - Unemployment by period of idleness
- - Unemployment by marital condition
- - Part-time employment
- - Special census of unemployment, Jan. 1931
- Abstract of the Fifteenth Census of the United States
- U.S. Documents C3.37/7:1930
- * Summarizes data on:
- - Population
- - Occupations
- - Families
- - Unemployment
- - Agriculture
- - Irrigation and Drainage
- - Manufactures
- - Mines & Quarries
- - Retail Distribution
- - Wholesale Distribution
- - Construction
- - Hotels
- - Outlying Territories and Possessions
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.