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U.S. Decennial Census: Guides & Documentation
Decade by decade information about how to access and use U.S. Census reports.
Guides & Documentation
- Encyclopedia of the U.S. census : from the constitution to the American community survey
E-book via UW Libraries - American Community Survey and Census
LibGuide via Southern Illinois University - 200 years of U.S. census taking : population and housing questions, 1790-1990
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Online via US Census Bureau - Catalog of United States census publications
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Online via HathiTrust - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1870 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1880 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1890 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1900 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1910 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950. 1920 volume.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Index to occupations, alphabetical and classified.
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Microfilm via UW Libraries - Classified index to occupations.
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Online via HathiTrust - Classified index of occupations. Fifteenth census of the United States.
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Online via HathiTrust - Sixteenth census of the United States : classified index of occupations : occupation classification based on the standard classification
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Online via HathiTrust - Classified index of occupations and industries : 1950 census of population
Print copy via UW Libraries - Classified index of occupations and industries : 1960 census of population.
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Online via HathiTrust - 1970 census of population. Classified index of industries and occupations.
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Online via HathiTrust - 1970 census of population : microfiche final reports : report 1-Alphabetical index of industries and occupations, report 2-Classified index of industries and occupations.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - 1980 census of population : classified index of industries and occupations.
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Online via HathiTrust - 1990 census of population and housing. classified index of industries and occupations.
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Online via HathiTrust - Geographic areas reference manual.
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Online via US Census Bureau
Online via HathiTrust - Instructions to enumerators for filling Schedule No. 2 : Agriculture.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Instructions to enumerators : Manufactures.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Thirteenth Census of U.S., Apr. 15, 1910. Special instructions to enumerators, relating to enumeration of Indians.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - 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.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census of Virgin Islands of U.S., Nov. 1, 1917 : Instructions to enumerators.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Fourteenth Census of U.S., Jan. 1, 1920. Instructions to enumerators.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Fourteenth Census : Agriculture. Supplemental instructions to enumerators for filling out agricultural schedules.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - U.S. Census of Agriculture, 1925. Instructions to enumerators.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - 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.
Print copy via UW Libraries - Fifteenth Census of U.S. Instructions to enumerators, population and agriculture : Hawaii.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Fifteenth Census of U.S., Oct. 1, 1929. Instructions to enumerators : Alaska.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Census of distribution, manufactures and mines and quarries: 1929. Instructions for preparing distribution, manufactures, and mines and quarries reports. Small cities and rural regions.
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Microfilm via UW Libraries - Fifteenth Census, 1930. Instructions to special enumerators, irrigation and drainage.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Fifteenth Census. Instructions to enumerators : Population and agriculture.
Microfilm via UW Libraries - Instructions to enumerators : special unemployment census.
Print copy via UW Libraries - Instructions to enumerators : fifteenth census : population and agriculture.
Print copy via UW Libraries - Instructions to enumerators for business and manufactures, 1939 : sixteenth decennial census of the United States.
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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
Online via HathiTrust - Map guide to the U.S. federal censuses, 1790-1920
Print copy via UW Libraries - Population and housing inquiries in U.S. decennial censuses, 1790-1970.
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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.
Contact
Need help? Call the Government Publications, Maps, Microforms & Newspapers help desk at (206) 543-4164 during desk hours. You can also consult the 24/7 Ask Us! reference service.