U.S. Decennial Census: Guides & Documentation

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Guides & Documentation

Encyclopedia of the U.S. census : From the Constitution to the American Community Survey by Margo J. Anderson
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Call Number: Online Resource
ISBN: 9781608717835
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Comparison: Census 2000, Census 2010, and American Community Survey by Southern Illinois University
Call Number: Online Resource
A libguide from SIU Edwardsville comparing the questions across three surveys.
200 years of U.S. census taking : population and housing questions, 1790-1990. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.2:T 93
Also online from the Government Publishing Office.
Catalog of United States census publications by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.163/3:
Also available online from Hathi Trust.
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1870 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12283
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1880 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12284
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1890 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12285
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1900 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12286
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1910 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12287
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1920 by National Archives and Records Service
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Microfilm Microfilm A12288
Index to occupations, alphabetical and classified. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1910 .Z4 1915
Also available in Microfiche located in the Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 at M-5003, no. C3.2-78.
Classified index to occupations. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.2-79.1
Also available online from HathiTrust.
Classified index of occupations. Fifteenth census of the United States. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Government Publications Stacks HA201 1930a .Z4 1930
Also online from HathiTrust.
Sixteenth census of the United States : classified index of occupations : occupation classification based on the standard classification by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1940 .Z42 1940
Also available online HathiTrust.
Classified index of occupations and industries : 1950 census of population by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1950 .Z43 1950
Classified index of occupations and industries. 1960 census of population. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1960 .A46 1960
Also available online from HathiTrust.
1970 census of population. Classified index of industries and occupations. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.223:Oc 1/2/970
Also available online from HathiTrust.
1970 census of population : microfiche final reports... by National Technical Information Service.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 51.11:P 81/970-7
1980 census of population: classified index of industries and occupations. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.223:Oc 1/2/980
Alternate call number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.223/22:80-R 4.
Also available online from HathiTrust.
1990 census of population and housing: Classified index of industries and occupations by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1990 .A569 v.R-4 -OR- C 3.223/22:90-R-4
Also available online.
Geographic Areas Reference Manual by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.6/2:G 29/4
Available online from the GPO and from HathiTrust.
Instructions to enumerators for filling Schedule No. 2 : Agriculture. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. I1307a-3
Census Year: 1900
Instructions to enumerators : Manufactures. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. I1307a-152
Census Year: 1900
Thirteenth Census of U.S., Apr. 15, 1910. Special instructions to enumerators, relating to enumeration of Indians. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.6-32
Thirteenth Census of U.S., Apr. 15, 1910. Instructions to enumerators, including supplemental instructions for collection of statistics of manufactures and of mines and quarries. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.6-28
Census of Virgin Islands of U.S., Nov. 1, 1917 : Instructions to enumerators. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.6-38
Fourteenth Census of U.S., Jan. 1, 1920. Instructions to enumerators. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.28-13.3
Fourteenth Census : Agriculture. Supplemental instructions to enumerators for filling out agricultural schedules. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.28-13.1
U.S. Census of Agriculture, 1925. Instructions to enumerators. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.6-21.1
Census of distribution, manufactures, and mines and quarries, 1929 : instructions for preparing distribution, manufactures, and mines and quarries reports : cities having 10,000 or more inhabitants. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.37/6:D 63 c
Fifteenth Census of U.S. Instructions to enumerators, population and agriculture : Hawaii. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.37-37
Fifteenth Census of U.S., Oct. 1, 1929. Instructions to enumerators : Alaska. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.37-29
Census of distribution, manufactures and mines and quarries: 1929. Instructions for preparing distribution, manufactures, and mines and quarries reports. Small cities and rural regions. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.37/6:D 63
Also on microfiche at Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.37-33.
Fifteenth Census, 1930. Instructions to special enumerators, irrigation and drainage. by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.37-38
Fifteenth Census. Instructions to enumerators : Population and agriculture by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Microforms & Newspapers Basement Closed Stacks 7 Microfiche M-5003, no. C3.37-35.1 to C3.37-35.3
Instructions to enumerators : special unemployment census. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.37/6:En 87
Instructions to enumerators : fifteenth census : population and agriculture. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.37/6:En 8
Instructions to enumerators for business and manufactures, 1939 : sixteenth decennial census of the United States. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.940-6:B 96
Also available online via HathiTrust.
16th census of the U.S.: 1940: Key to the published and tabulated data for small areas (Preliminary) by Bureau of the Census
Call Number: Online resource
Map guide to the U.S. federal censuses, 1790-1920
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference HA195 .T46 1987
Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000, U.S. Census Bureau by U.S. Census Bureau.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.2:M 46/2
Alternate Call Number: Ground Floor Reference C 3.2:M 46/2/REV.
Also available online from the Census Bureau.
Population and housing inquiries in U.S. decennial censuses, 1790-1970. by Bureau of the Census.
Call Number: Government Publications US Stacks C 3.214:no.39
Population information in nineteenth century census volumes
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S44 1983
Population information in twentieth century census volumes, 1900-1940
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S45 1985
Population information in twentieth century census volumes, 1950-1980
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S46 1988
Procedural history of the 1940 census of population and housing
Call Number: Government Publications Stacks HA201 1940 .J46 1985

Measuring America

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Schulze's Guides

Suzanne Schulze's guides to the population censuses are consulted frequently. Schulze's detailed guides allow users to read about the variables and coverage of each census volume before spending time in a fruitless quest.

Population information in nineteenth century census volumes
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S44 1983
Population information in twentieth century census volumes, 1900-1940
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S45 1985
Population information in twentieth century census volumes, 1950-1980
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Ground Floor Reference Z7164.D3 S46 1988

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