General Overviews of the Census

Histories and Overviews of the U.S. Census

1880 census project users manual
Clifford W. Bass and Barry Christopher Noonan
Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Center for Historical Demography, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, c1984
F580.B370 1984 - Regenstein Stacks

The 1910 federal population census : a catalog of microfilm copies of the schedules
National Archives Trust Fund Board
Washington, DC : The Board, 1982
Z7553.C3N370 1982 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the Reference Desk

The 1920 federal population census : catalog of National Archives microfilm
Washington, DC : National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1991
Z7553.C3A17 1991 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the Reference Desk

1997 Census of Agriculture
The introduction contains a history of the agricultural census.

1992 census of agriculture. Volume 2, Subject series
Pt. 4. History
[Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of the Census
HD1769.A3 1992 v.4 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1

200 years of U.S. census taking : population and housing questions, 1790-1990
Bohme, Frederick G
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
HA37.U55B63 1989 - Regenstein Reading Room, Floor 1 and D'Angelo Law, stacks

After Ellis Island : newcomers and natives in the 1910 census / edited by Susan Cotts Watkins
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1994
1. Introduction / Susan Cotts Watkins -- 2. Background: About the 1910 Census / Susan Cotts Watkins -- 3. Child Mortality Differences by Ethnicity and Race in the United States: 1900-1910 / Samuel H. Preston, Douglas Ewbank and Mark Hereward -- 4. Generating Americans: Ethnic Differences in Fertility / S. Philip Morgan, Susan Cotts Watkins and Douglas Ewbank -- 5. Under the Same Roof: Family and Household Structure / Andrew T. Miller, S. Philip Morgan and Antonio McDaniel -- 6. Ethnic Neighbors and Ethnic Myths: An Examination of Residential Segregation in 1910 / Michael J. White, Robert F. Dymowski and Shilian Wang -- 7. Race and Ethnicity, Social Class, and Schooling / Jerry A. Jacobs and Margaret E. Greene -- 8. The Industrial Affiliation of Workers: Differences by Nativity and Country of Origin / Ann R. Miller -- Afterword: America's Immigrants in the 1910 Census Monograph: Where Can We Who Do It Differently Go from Here? / Ewa Morawska -- Appendix A: An Introduction to the Public Use Sample of the 1910 U.S. Census of Population / Michael A. Strong, Samuel H. Preston and Mark C. Hereward -- Appendix B: A Tabular Presentation of Immigrant Characteristics, by Ethnic Group / Susan Cotts Watkins and Arodys Robles.
JV6461.A930 1994 - Regenstein Stacks

The American census : a social history
Anderson, Margo J.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1988
HA37.U55A530 1988 - Regenstein Stacks
HA37.U55A530 1988 - Harper Library

The Bureau of the Census
Eckler, A. Ross
New York, Praeger [1972]
HA37.U55E2 - Regenstein Stacks

Bureau of the Census catalog
United States. Bureau of the Census
[Washington, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]
1946-84. Continued by: Census catalog and guide
Z7554.U5U3 - Regenstein Reading Room Floor 1, Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 2

Bureau of the Census catalog of publications, 1790-1972
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974
Z7554.U5U6 1974 - Regenstein, Stacks; Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1; Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 2; and Crerar, Reference, Floor 1

The census book : a genealogist's guide to federal census facts, schedules and indexes : with master extraction forms for federal census schedules, 1790-1930
Dollarhide, William
Utah : Heritage Quest, 2000
HA214.D63 2000 - Regenstien Stacks

Census catalog and guide
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985-
Z7554.U5U3 - D'Angelo Law Reference, Regenstein Reading Room Floor 1, Regenstein Reading Room Floor 2

Census of 1900 [microform]
Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1900
On development of administrative and statistical methodology
microfc J83.U13 1990:I1302-6 - Regenstein, Microforms, Floor 3 (CIS US Executive Branch Documents no. I1302-6)

Census, U.S.A.: fact finding for the American people, 1790-1970. Charts and graphs by Randolph Chitwood
Scott, Ann Herbert
New York, Seabury Press [1968]
HA37.U55S42 - Regenstein Stacks

Decennial Census: Overview of Historical Census Issues
Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office: GPO, 1998

Demographic dimensions of the New Republic : American interregional migration, vital statistics, and manumissions, 1800-1860
Peter D. McClelland and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982
HA214.M380 1982 - Regenstein Stacks

Dubester's U.S. census bibliography with SuDocs class numbers and indexes
Cook, Kevin L
Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1996
Z7553.C3C660 1996 - Regenstein Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the reference desk

Encyclopedia of the U.S. census
Anderson, Margo J., editor in chief
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000
HA37.U55 C66 2000 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the Reference Desk

Evolution of the United States Economic Censuses: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Final report of Joint census advisory committee of the American statistical and the American economic associations. Appointed at the request of the Secretary of commerce and the Director of the census. December 30, 1922
Joint Census Advisory Committee of the American Statistical and the American Economic Associations
[Concord, The Rumford press, 1922]
HA37.U5 1922 - Regenstein Stacks

Guide to industrial statistics : industrial statistics program, locator guide to published data, types of data presented, publications of major censuses, other sources of statistics
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978
HD9724.U520 1978 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1

The history and growth of the United States census, prepared for the Senate committee on the census, by C. D. Wright ... assisted by W. C. Hunt ...
United States. Bureau of Labor
Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1900
HA201 1900 .F02 - Regenstein Stacks
HA201 1900 .F - Regenstein Stacks
microfc E169.1.L537 1971 - (LAC 13438) Regenstein Microforms, Floor 3

Index to the 8th (1860) census of the U.S.
Jackson, Ronald V.
Salt Lake City, UT : Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1995
microfcHA201 1860 .J335 - Regenstein, Microforms, Floor 3

Industry research using the economic census : how to find it, how to use it
Boettcher, Jennifer C. and Gaines, Leonard M.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004
Table of contents link
HC101 .B594 2004 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1

A Key to the 1880 United States federal census identifying enumeration district numbers and microfilm numbers of the National Archives and the Genealogical Library / compiled by U.S./Canada reference staff and volunteers of the Genealogical Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
2nd ed., rev. and corrected
Bowie, MD : Heritage Books, 1986
CS49.A153K490 1986 - Regenstein Stacks

Map guide to the U.S. federal censuses, 1790-1920
Thorndale, William
Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987
f HA217.T56 1987 - Regenstein, Map Collection: Reference, Room 370

Measuring America : the decennial censuses from 1790 to 2000
[prepared by Jason G. Gauthier]
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2002
HA37.U62 M43 2002 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the Reference Desk
HA37.U62 M43 2002 - Regenstein Stacks and also D'Angelo Law, Stacks

Population and Housing Items on the General Census Schedules 1790-2000
Compiled by Grace York, University of Michigan Library, March 2002

Population information in nineteenth century census volumes
Schulze, Suzanne
Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1983
Z7164.D3S39 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1 next to the Reference Desk and Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 2

Principles of statistical inquiry; as illustrated in proposals for uniting an examination into the resources of the United States with the census to be taken in 1840
Russell, Archibald, 1811-1871
New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1839
HA29.R96 - Regenstein, Stacks

Publications [microform] : 10th, 11th, and 12th Censuses and permanent bureau
Washington : [Bureau of the Census], 1903-1909
United States -- Census, 11th, 1890 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
microfc J83.U13 1990:C313-1 to C313-6 - Regenstein, Microforms, Floor 3 [CIS US Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909 : no. C313-1 to C313-6]

Researcher's guide to United States census availability, 1790-1910
Hamilton, Ann B
Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1987
Z7553.C3H360 1987 - Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1

The story of the census. 1790-1915
United States. Bureau of the Census
[Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1915]
HA37.U5 1915 - Regenstein Stacks

The story of the census. 1790-1916
United States. Bureau of the Census
[Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1916]
HA37.U4A3 1916 - Regenstein Stacks

Topical index of population census report, 1900-1930
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, 1934. [Ann Arbor, Mich., Lithoprinted by Edwards brothers, inc., 1934]
HA205.A3 1934 - Regenstein Stacks and also Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 1

Twenty censuses : population and housing questions, 1790-1980
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978
HA37.U55 1979 - Regenstein Stacks

Uncle Sam: how he grew. 150 years of American history as recorded in the U.S. census
United States. Bureau of the Census
[Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1943]
HA37.U3 1943 - Regenstein Stacks