Thoreau
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cscitney87 wrote:
Let's not even get into the long form version nowadays =)
eye95 wrote:
2- Race is irrelevant now that it isn't just whites who can vote, so there goes that. Free or not is also irrelevant since slavery is gone. So let's reduce this, for modern times, to 'number of people in household.'
3- See #2
4- See #2, and add in that Suffrage took the gender issue out of the equation.
5- Again, #2
6- Guess what, see #2!
7- Pretty easy to figure that out since the form is being sent to me by mail, so they KNOW the state, city, zip code, street, building number, and unit number. If being taken by a live census taker, they also know that information since they're already standing there.
They seemed to figure out the number of people without a problem with the information in those 7 questions. Since those can be filtered down to, at most, three questions by today's standards, there is no need for there to be 10 questions on the standard form, and certainly ZERO reason for the extended/long form.
cscitney87 wrote:
1880 Census *snip*
Let's not even get into the long form version nowadays =)
eye95 wrote:
So let's go over those...In the very first Census, the Founders had to provide their names:
http://www.1930census.com/1790_census_questions.php
- 1-Name of Head of Household (First / Last)
- 2-Number of Free White Males of Sixteen Years and upwards
- 3-Number of Free White Males under Sixteen Years
- 4-Number of Free White Females
- 5-Number of all other Free persons
- 6-Number of Slaves
- 7-Town or district of residence (sometimes recorded)
2- Race is irrelevant now that it isn't just whites who can vote, so there goes that. Free or not is also irrelevant since slavery is gone. So let's reduce this, for modern times, to 'number of people in household.'
3- See #2
4- See #2, and add in that Suffrage took the gender issue out of the equation.
5- Again, #2
6- Guess what, see #2!
7- Pretty easy to figure that out since the form is being sent to me by mail, so they KNOW the state, city, zip code, street, building number, and unit number. If being taken by a live census taker, they also know that information since they're already standing there.
They seemed to figure out the number of people without a problem with the information in those 7 questions. Since those can be filtered down to, at most, three questions by today's standards, there is no need for there to be 10 questions on the standard form, and certainly ZERO reason for the extended/long form.