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This time the census Job will require 150,000 persons ta ring . door-bells and gather the facts •lone, a number 8% times the' dise of America’s biggest city 100 years ago, Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital as well. The population is expected to number about 150-millions, nearly 40 times the 1790 total. Our society has become primarily urban and industrial, and in all fundamental 'respects such is national wealth, productive power, living standards, and average individual wellbeing, the United States has run far ahead of its contemporary nations of the late 19th century. ,
The first census asked five simple population questions. This time there will be ebout 60 questions, plus some 200 additional questions concerning agriculture. In reality, there will be three eeaBuses next year—population, agriculture and housing.
Changes in the census and their scope over the years give a picture of how the nation has grown. Tfao first two censuses' were limJted to the population alone. In 1810 the first census ofmanufacturee was taken, indicating its increasing importance. Thirty years later, in 1640, came the initial census of agriculture. In 1029 the fir^ census of business was taken to survey the nation’s system of distribution, and the year 1940 saw he first census of housing. Furthermore,* a decennial census of religious . bodies was Started in 1900.
Thus six complete censuses are conducted every decade, with' those of manufactures and agap** culture conducted at more frequent periods.
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