[Genealib] Re:1940 census (sampling)

[Kay Speaks (LSI)]

If it is of interest, this website gives all the questions and
instructions for census from 1850 - 2006, including special and
community census.

http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumForm.shtml 

 

Kay Speaks

Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society

www.L-AGS.org

 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: L.L. Scott 
  To: Librarians Serving Genealogists 
  Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Genealib] Re:1940 census (sampling)
 
 
  I used the 1940 census record to get my Social Security.
  So there must be info on it. Don't know where my copy of the record is
:-(
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Karen Stuart 
    To: Librarians Serving Genealogists 
    Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:56 AM
    Subject: [Genealib] Re:1940 census (sampling)
 
 
    Absolutely NOT true; to do so would be in violation of the U.S.
Constitution.  The statistical sampling that was done in 1940 was for
the *housing* census, not the population census.  See the U.S. Census
Bureau's page: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1940.htm 
 
    There has been some discussion of adopting sampling methods for
future population censuses to reduce cost and, it is argued, to produce
more "accurate" statistical data.  
 
 
 
 
    On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, <director at perry.lib.ok.us>
<mailto:director at perry.lib.ok.us>  wrote:
 
      No... what I meant to say is that I thought I heard that the 1940
census
      is a statistical sample of PEOPLE. Meaning that the census stopped
      attempting to record every person, because there were simply too
many,
      and that if you look at the 1940 census when it comes out, you'll
only
      be able to see the people they talked to.
 
      Is that true?
 
 
      Thanks,
 
      Jeffrey
 
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      Jeffrey Courouleau, MLIS
      Head Librarian
      Perry Carnegie Library
      302 N. 7th Street
      Perry, OK, 73077
 
      E-Mail: <director at perry.lib.ok.us>
<mailto:director at perry.lib.ok.us> 
      Ph: 580-336-4721 or 1-866-336-4721
      Fax: 580-336-5497
      Web: http://www.perrypl.okpls.org/
 
 
 
 
 
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