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Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Guide
1960 Census Reports
- Questionnaire, instructions, etc.
- * Questionnaire description and Instructions to
Enumerators - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
- * Excerpts from Enumerator's Reference Manual - from 1960 Census of Population, v.1, pt. 1 (C3.223/9:1960/v. 1/pt. 1)
- Census of Population: 1960, vol. 1, Characteristics of
the Population, Part A, Number of Inhabitants
- U.S. Documents C3.223/10:1960/v. 1/pt. A
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Regions, Divisions, States, Territories, Urbanized
areas, Counties, Minor civil divisions, Census county divisions, Places,
Standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), State economic areas,
Tracts
- * CONTENTS: Contains 41 tables for national level data:
- - Population at various geographies
- - Ranks at various geographies
- - Rates of population increase
- * Contains 12 tables for each State and Territory on:
- - Population, 1870 to 1960, for State, urban/rural
- - Population, 1900 to 1960, for Groups of places by
size
- - Population, 1960, for places by size
- - Population, earliest to 1960, for Incorporated places
10,000+
- - Area and population, 1950 and 1960, for Counties,
urban/rural
- - Population, 1960, for Counties by Census county
division
- - Population, 1940 to 1960, Places 1,000+, incorporated and
unincorporated
- - Population, 1960, of areas annexed 1940-1960
- - Population, 1950 and 1960, Urbanized areas
- - Population, 1950 and 1960, SMSAs
- - Population, 1960, of State and SMSAs by type of residence
- Census of Population: 1960, vol. 1, Characteristics of
the Population, Parts 1 - 54/57, in 54 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.223/9:1960/pt. -
- * Consists of one volume containing national summary data, and one volume
per state plus one for Outlying areas: Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa,
Canal Zone
- * Each volume is arranged in four sections: Number of inhabitants, General
population characteristics, General social and economic characteristics,
Detailed characteristics
- * Table Finding Guide - U.S.
Summary
- * Table Finding Guide - States
- * Presents data for each state or outlying area in 146 tables on:
- - Color or Race
- - Age
- - Nativity or parentage, Place of birth, Country of origin
of foreign born, Mother tongue of foreign born
- - Residence in 1955, Year moved to present home
- - School enrollment, Years of school completed
- - Veterans
- - Marital status, Married couples, Presence of spouse,
Married more than once
- - Household relationship, Group quarters
- - Families; Primary, Secondary and Subfamilies
- - Unrelated individuals, Primary individuals
- - Fertility
- - Employment status, Labor force status, Hours worked,
Weeks worked in 1959, Year last worked
- - Occupation, Industry, Class of worker
- - Place of work, Transportation to work
- - 1959 Income of persons, families, unrelated
individuals
- - 1959 Earnings of persons
- Census of Population: 1960, vol. 2, Special Reports, in
30 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.223/10:1960/v. 2/pts. -
- * Comprised of Series PC(2) reports:
- - Nativity and parentage, Persons of Spanish Surname,
Nonwhite population by race, Puerto Ricans in the U.S., Mother tongue
- - State of birth, Mobility for States and State economic
areas, Mobility for Metropolitan areas, Lifetime and recent migration
- - Women by number of children ever born, Childspacing
- - Families, Persons by family characteristics, Sources and
structure of family income, Age at first marriage, Marital status
- - School enrollment, Educational Attainment,
Characteristics of Socioeconomic groups
- - Employment Status and work experience, Journey to work,
Labor reserve
- - Occupational characteristics, Occupation by earnings and
education, Occupation by industry, Characteristics of Teachers,
Characteristics of Professional Workers
- - Inmates of institutions, Income of the elderly
population, Veterans
- Census of Population: 1960, vol. 3, Selected Area
Reports, in 5 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.223/10:1960/v. 3/pts. -
- * Comprised of Series PC(3) reports:
- - State economic areas
- - Size of place
- - Americans overseas
- - Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas
- - Type of place
- Census of Population and Housing: 1960, Census Tracts, in
180 reports
- U.S. Documents C3.223/11:1960/pt. -
- * Contains population and housing data for tracted cities
- * Subject coverage is that described above for Population (vol. 1, pt. 1)
and below for Housing (vol. 1)
- * Tract maps are in pockets at the end of each report.
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 1, States and Small Areas,
in 9 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.224/9:1960/v. 1/pts. -
- * Pt. 1 contains data for the United States, Regions, Divisions, States,
SMSAs, Urban/Rural, Places 100,000+, Places 50,000+
- * Table Finding Guide - U.S.
Summary
- * Pts. 2-9 present data for States and for Puerto Rico, Guam, and Virgin
Islands
- * Table Finding Guide - States and Small
Areas
- * State data is given in a series of 39 tables covering:
- - Inventory
- - Occupancy characteristics
- - Structural characteristics
- - Condition and plumbing facilities
- - Equipment and fuel
- - Financial characteristics
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 2, Metropolitan Housing,
in 7 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.224/9:1960/v. 2/pts. -
- * Pt. 1 contains data for the United States and Divisions in 14 tables
on:
- - Value of owner-occupied units
- - Gross rent of renter-occupied units
- - 1959 Income of families and renters
- - Condition and plumbing facilities
- - Number of rooms
- - Units in structure
- - Household composition
- - Occupied units lacking specified facilities
- - Duration of vacancy
- - Rent asked for vacant units
- - Value of owner-occupied units with nonwhite household
heads
- - Gross rent for units with nonwhite household heads
- - 1959 Income of families and renters, nonwhite household
heads
- - Condition and plumbing facilities in units with nonwhite
household heads
- * Pts. 2-7 present data for SMSAs and Places 100,000+
- * Table Finding Guide - Metropolitan
Housing
- * SMSA data is given in a series of 10 tables
- * Tables with nonwhite family data, reported for the nation and divisions,
are not given for SMSAs
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 3, City Blocks, in 421
reports
- U.S. Documents C3.224/5:1960/pts. -
- * Covers cities with 50,000+ population, and some smaller localities which
arranged for compilation of block statistics
- * Data is in two tables for each place:
- - Housing unit characteristics for the city
- - Housing unit characteristics by blocks
- * Data is reported on
- - Condition and plumbing
- - Tenure
- - Color: white/black
- - Persons per room
- - Average number of rooms
- - Value or Rent
- * At NCSU, several reports were bound together in hardback volumes, with
block maps grouped in a pocket at the back of each volume
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 4, Components of Inventory
Change, 1950-1959, in 46 reports
- U.S. Documents C3.224/6:1960/v. 4/pts. -
- * Pt. 1A (in 18 reports), 1950-1959 Components
- - Has a U.S. summary and reports for 17 SMSAs
- * Pt. 1B (in 18 reports), 1957-1959 Inventory Characteristics
- - Has a U.S. summary and reports for 17 SMSAs
- * Pt. 2 (in 10 reports), 1957-1959 Components
- - Has a U.S. summary and reports for 9 SMSAs
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 5, Residential Finance, in
2 vols.
- U.S. Documents C3.224/7:1960/v. 5/pts. -
- * Pt. 1, Homeowner Properties, has 8 tables on:
- - Mortgaged and nonmortgaged properties
- - Owners
- - Mortgages for U.S., regions, and selected metropolitan
areas
- * Pt. 2, Rental and Vacant Properties, has 5 tables on:
- - Mortgage status and holder
- - Government insurance status
- - Mortgage debt
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 6, Rural Housing
- U.S. Documents C3.224/9:1960/v. 6
- * Contains housing data for 121 economic subregions of the U.S., for
rural-farm and rural-nonfarm housing units
- Census of Housing: 1960, vol. 7, Housing of Senior
Citizens
- U.S. Documents C3.224/9:1960/v. 7
- * Describes housing occupied by persons 60+ for U.S., States, and SMSAs
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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