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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.
Census questions 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 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 - ↑
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External links ar: 1910 fr:Recensement des tats-Unis de 1910 id:Sensus Amerika Serikat 1910 ro:Recens m ntul Statelor Unite ale Americii din 1910 zh:1910
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