1910 United States Census

Thirteenth Census of the United States
U.S. Census Bureau Seal
General Information
Date Taken	April 15, 1910
Total U.S. Population	92,228,496
Percent Change	21.0%
Most Populous State	New York 9,113,614
Least Populous State	Nevada 81,875
Population Schedule

The Thirteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 Census. The 1910 Census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation.

1 Census questions
2 Data availability
3 Notes
4 External links

Census questions [edit]

The 1910 census collected the following information:^[1]

address
name
relationship to head of family
sex
race
age
marital status and, if married, number of years of present marriage
for women, number of children born and number now living
place of birth and mother tongue of person, and their parents
if foreign born, year of immigration; whether naturalized; whether able to speak English and, if unable, language spoken
occupation, industry and class of worker
if an employee, whether out of work during year
literacy
school attendance
whether home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether mortgaged
whether farm or house
whether a survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy
whether blind, deaf or dumb

Full documentation for the 1910 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

Data availability [edit]

An example of a 1910 U.S. census form with August H. Runge

The original census enumeration sheets were microfilmed by the Census Bureau in the 1940s; after which the original sheets were destroyed.^[2] The microfilmed census is available in rolls from the National Archives and Records Administration. Several organizations also host images of the microfilmed census online, along which digital indices.

Microdata from the 1910 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System.

Notes [edit]

^ "Library Bibliography Bulletin 88, New York State Census Records, 1790-1925". New York State Library. October 1981. pp. 45 (p. 51 of PDF). Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2008.
^ Algonquin Area Public Library District. "Census Secrets". Retrieved 17 May 2012.

External links [edit]

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