Measuring America

by Evans, Donald L.; Bodman, Samuel W.; Cooper, Kathleen B.; Kincannon, Charles Louis

• ISBN13: 9780756729752
• ISBN10: 0756729750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: United States Govt Printing Office

Table of Contents

Census Questionnaires and Instructions: 1790 to 2000	5	(110)
1790 Questionnaire	5	(1)
1800 Questionnaire	6	(1)
1810 Questionnaire	6	(1)
1820 Questionnaire	6	(1)
Instructions to Marshals	6	(1)
1830 Questionnaire	7	(1)
Instructions to Marshals	7	(1)
1840 Questionnaire	8	(1)
1850 Questionnaire---Free Inhabitants	9	(2)
Instructions to Marshals and Assistants	9	(2)
1850 Questionnaire---Slave Inhabitants	11	(2)
1860 Questionnaire	13	(1)
Instructions to Marshals and Assistants	13	(1)
1870 Questionnaire	13	(4)
Instructions to Marshals and Assistants	14	(3)
1880 Questionnaire---Schedule 1, ``Inhabitants''	17	(4)
Instructions to Enumerators	18	(3)
1880 Questionnaire---Schedule 1, ``Indian Division''	21	(1)
1890 Questionnaire	22	(12)
1900 Questionnaire---Population	34	(9)
Instructions to Enumerators	35	(8)
1900 Questionnaire---Indian Population	43	(2)
Instructions for Enumerators	43	(2)
1910 Questionnaire---General Population	45	(10)
Instructions to Enumerators	47	(8)
1910 Questionnaire---Indian Population	55	(3)
Instructions for Enumerators	56	(2)
1920 Questionnaire	58	(1)
Instructions to Enumerators	58	(1)
1930 Questionnaire---Population	59	(1)
Instructions to Enumerators	59	(1)
1930 Questionnaire---Census of Unemployment	60	(1)
1930 Questionnaire---``Supplemental Schedule for Indian Population''	61	(1)
1940 Questionnaire---Population	62	(3)
Instructions to Enumerators	64	(1)
1940 Questionnaire---Census of Occupied Dwellings	65	(1)
1940 Questionnaire---Census of Vacant Dwellings	66	(1)
Instructions to Enumerators	66	(1)
1950 Questionnaire---Population	66	(5)
Instructions to Enumerators	70	(1)
1950 Questionnaire---Housing	71	(1)
Instructions to Enumerators---Housing	71	(1)
1960 Questionnaire	72	(5)
Instruction---Census of 1960	72	(5)
1970 Questionnaire	77	(7)
Instructions	77	(7)
1980 Questionnaire	84	(7)
1990 Questionnaire	91	(6)
2000 Questionnaire	97	(13)
Availability of Population Schedules	110	(5)
Electronic Data Processing	110	(1)
Microfilm	111	(4)
Availability of the 1930 Census Records	115	(1)
Finding Guides	115	(1)
The 1840 Census	115	(1)
The 1885 Census	115	(1)
The 1890 Records	115	(1)
State and Territorial Censuses	115	(1)
Mortality Schedules	116	(3)
Population Items on Principal Census Questionnaires	119	(6)
A History of the Decennial Censuses: 1790 to 2000	125	(4)
Censuses of 1790 to 1840	125	(1)
Censuses of 1850 to 1890	125	(1)
Censuses of 1900 to 2000	126	(1)
Stateside Developments	127	(2)
Sampling	127	(1)
Processing	128	(1)
Collecting the data	128	(1)
Publishing	129	(1)
Individual Histories of the United States Censuses	129	(1)
The First Census: 1790	129	(1)
The Second Censuses: 1800	129	(1)
The Third Census: 1810	129	(1)
The Fourth Census: 1820	130	(1)
The Fifth Census: 1830	130	(1)
The Sixth Census: 1840	130	(1)
The Seventh Census: 1850	130	(1)
The Eight Census: 1860	131	(1)
The Ninth Census: 1870	131	(1)
The Tenth Census: 1880	132	(1)
Interdecennial Censuses of States and Territories: 1885	133	(1)
The Eleventh Census: 1890	133	(1)
The Twelfth Census: 1900	133	(1)
The Thirteenth Census: 1910	134	(1)
The Fourteenth Census: 1920	134	(1)
The Fifteenth Census: 1930	134	(1)
1930 Census of Unemployment	135	(1)
The Sixteenth Census: 1940	135	(1)
1940 Census of Housing	135	(1)
Use of sampling in the 1940 Census	136	(1)
The Seventeenth Census: 1950	136	(1)
Procedures to improve coverage	136	(1)
Post-Enumeration Survey	137	(1)
The Eighteenth Census: 1960	137	(1)
Sampling	137	(1)
Enumeration procedures	137	(1)
The Nineteenth Census: 1970	138	(1)
The Twentieth Census: 1980	139	(1)
Field enumeration	139	(1)
Publicity	139	(1)
The Twenty-First Census: 1990	139	(1)
Publicity	140	(1)
The Twenty-Second Census: 2000	140	(1)
Census 2000 advertising campaign	140	(1)
APPENDIXES
A. United States' Population and Census Cost	1	(1)
B. National Archives and Records Administration Headquarters and Regional Branches	1	(1)
C. Availability of Records for the Eleventh Census of the United States	1	(1)
D. Bibliography	1