Digitized Collections 1790 2000 Frank Wilmot Government Publications Library December 13, 2006

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Digitized Collections1790 2000Frank
WilmotGovernment Publications LibraryDecember
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idiocy? Assigned causes of idiocy
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• History and Background
• New nation needed a census to
• Apportion the House of Representatives

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• History and Background
• New nation needed a census to
• Figure out how much each state owed for the war

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History and Background Article I, Section 2 of
the U.S. Constitution Representatives and direct
taxes shall be apportioned among the several
states which may be included within this union,
according to their respective numbers, which
shall be determined by adding to the whole number
of free persons, including those bound to service
for a term of years, and excluding Indians not
taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The
actual Enumeration shall be made within three
years after the first meeting of the Congress of
the United States, and within every subsequent
term of ten years, in such manner as they shall
by law direct.
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• Census Bureau Progress
• 1790 1870 U.S. marshalls and assistants
• 1880 1900 Census Office within U.S. Dept. of
  Interior
• 1902 Congress authorized the President to create
  a permanent Census Office

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• Census Bureau Progress
• 1903 Transferred to the new Dept. of Commerce
  and Labor
• 1913 Dept. of Commerce and Labor split into two
  Census went with Commerce

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First Census 1790
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First Census 1790
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Subsequent Censuses Added in 1810
Manufactures
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Subsequent Censuses Added in 1840
Agriculture
Mining
Fisheries
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Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in
1850
Taxes
Churches
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Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in
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Crime
Pauperism
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Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically
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Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically
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Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically
1907
1903
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• Subsequent Censuses
• 1880 and 1890
• Took almost a decade to compile and publish
  reports

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Subsequent Censuses 1880 22 Volumes, Compendium,
etc. 1890 15 Volumes, some with multiple
parts 1910 10 Volumes
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• Subsequent Censuses
• Dropped topics reappear in later censuses
• Technology
• Process data faster
• Publish faster

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Census Programs Population 1790 to present
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Census Programs Housing 1940 to present
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Census Programs Agriculture
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Census Programs Manufactures Mining
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Census Programs Business
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Census Programs Construction
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Census Programs Governments
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• Census Programs

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• Indexes
• Bureau of the Census catalog of publications,
  1790-1972

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• Indexes
• Bureau of the Census catalog of publications,
  1790-1972
• Libraries.30, 33, 40, 45, 57, 1656

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• Indexes
• NINTH DECENNIAL CENSUS 1870
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• 45 Vol. I. The statistics of the population of
  the United States, embracing the tables of race,
  nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations.
  To which are added the statistics of school
  attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries,
  newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism
  and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings
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• Digitized Collection
• Census Bureau Website Publications
• http//www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html

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• Indexes
• Bureau of the Census catalog of publications,
  1790-1972
• Census Catalog and Guide (1946-1998 in
  print 1995-1998 online 1999 CD-ROM)
• Catalog of Government Publications
  (1976-present online)

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• Digitized Collection
• Government Publications Library Census Guide