U.S. Decennial Census: 1950

• 17th decennial census
• US population: 150,697,361
• Washington population: 2,378,963

Questions asked

• Information obtained from all persons:
  • Address;
  • whether house is on farm;
  • name;
  • relationship to head of household;
  • race;
  • sex;
  • age;
  • martial status;
  • place of birth;
  • if foreign born, whether naturalized;
  • employment status;
  • hours worked during week preceding enumeration;
  • occupation, industry, and class of worker.
• Information obtained from 20-percent sample:
  • Whether living in same house a year ago;
  • whether living on a farm a year ago;
  • if not in same house, county and State of residence year ago;
  • country of birth of parents;
  • educational attainment;
  • school attendance;
  • if looking for work, number of weeks;
  • weeks worked last year;
  • for each person and each family, earnings last year from wages and salary, from self-employment;
  • other income last year; veteran status.
• Information obtained from 3-1/3 percent sample:
  • For persons who worked last year but not in current labor force: occupation, industry, and class of worker on last job;
  • if ever married, whether married more than once;
  • duration of present marital status;
  • for women ever married, number of children ever born.
• Supplemental schedules for persons on Indian reservations; infants born in the first 3 months of 1950; Americans overseas.