Census Records

2006 Census

2006 Census

The 2006 Census was carried out for the population of the country of Canada. As such, Census 2006 proceedings took place specifically on May 16 of that year. After the 2006 census, the next detailed collection of information related to the country’s population will be in the 2011 period.
According to the results of the 2006 census and the documents which it gathered, the country’s population at the time, and as far as will be definitely known until the point of the 2011 Census, was 31,612,897. Upon their final tabulation, these numbers proved somewhat surprising to the local authorities, who had previously estimated the country’s overall population to be, rather, around 32,623,490 residents in all.
In addition to the total number of people who were eventually determined to have passed through the procedure, the Census 2006 procedure was further determined to have included a number excluding 12.7 individual households respondent to the survey. The initial documents through which the 2006 Census was carried out were distributed throughout the nation through the offices of Canada Post.
In addition to these physical Census 2006 forms, the procedures surrounding the 2006 census set a precedent in the availability of online questionnaires as means through which the census questions could be asked and answered. Moreover, some Census 2006 questions were new as items of interest for the government, including such matters as the level of educational accomplishment of respondents, their average income through employment or government-provided benefits, and whether or not they consented to the individual 2006 Census record being made available one day.
 

2010 Census

2010 Census

The US Census 2010 was carried out, under the Barack Obama Presidential administration, on April 1 of that year. As such, the Census 2010 results, upon their full tabulation and verification, will provide the national population numbers for the whole of the United States for the next ten years, until the 2020 census has been carried out.
As such, the US Census 2010 stands as the twenty-third example of such a procedure to have been carried out by the government of and for the interests of the United States. As with previous U.S. censuses, the Census 2010 effort was under the administrative purview of the department of the Census Bureau, and as such was, in this year, under the specific oversight of the then-holder of that office, Director Robert Groves.
The announced governmental intention behind the conducting of the US Census 2010 effort was to attain a higher degree of accuracy in the count. In this respect, the Census 2010 workforce was noted as manifesting an increase in personnel in comparison to the 2000 procedure. All in all, the US Census 2010 initiative made use of the services of some 635,000 employees just for the duration of the Census 2010 itself.
As such, the US Census 2010 was noted not simply as a step toward more accurate tabulation of the U.S. population, but also a boon, albeit a fleeting one, in the midst of a generally underperforming U.S. labor market. The first Census 2010 respondent was a Noorvik, Alaska-resident veteran of World War II, one Clifton Jackson.

1891 Census

1891 Census

The 1891 census was conducted for the population then living in England and Wales. In general, nationally based surveys of the populations of the various states included in the overall dominion of the United Kingdom have proceeded over the history of the last two centuries at ten year intervals, and as such have followed from the original starting date of 1801 for the beginning of the practice.
The 1891 census, again like censuses which have been carried out throughout U.K. history, involved forms being distributed to all of the households in the areas being surveyed. In this way, people were expected to fill out the government documents several days before the actual date of the 1891 census, at which time all of the documents were collected by government employees. If it happened that the head of a household was illiterate, as was then not uncommon, then the government 1891 census workers would assist that person with filling in the required details.
These items of information to be addressed through the 1891 census included address and other details of locations, such as the name, if any, of an establishment, as well as the last name of a household head, the number of persons under his or her authority, the relationships of those people, if any, whether or not a person was married, his or her profession, and the place where he or she was born. Moreover, the 1891 census also required that people reveal whether or not they had a form of physical or mental disability.

1900 Census

1900 Census

The 1900 census was a national survey of the population of the United States. The 1900 census was the twelfth as such to be conducted on the American population. As a function of the United States government, administrative authority for the 1900 census was vested with the responsible department of the Census Bureau.
As a part of U.S. history, much of the significance ascribed to the 1900 census by historians derives from its finding of an increase by more than 20% in U.S. population numbers as had occurred between the point it was taken and the previous U.S. census of 1890. In this regard, the 1900 census found some 76 million people to be then living in the United States.
In addition to the basic question of the actual number of people living inside of the U.S., other items of interest for the 1900 census included various details of a person’s life and how he or she happened to make his or her living.
In this regard, respondents to the 1900 census were asked about the address where they made their residence, their status as head of a household or relationship to the person who was, their age and date of birth, their “race,” as then defined, and whether they had been born in the United States or elsewhere. Moreover, the 1900 census also asked, of women, whether they had had any children and, if so, how many, their form of home ownership or use, their proficiency or lack thereof with English, and their level of education.

1910 Census

1910 Census

 


The 1910 census was carried out for the population of the United States and by the government of that country. As such, the 1910 Census was the thirteenth U.S. census. Among other things, the 1910 census is known for showing that the population of the United States had increased by 21% since the time of the last census, as had been conducted a decade before and as such then stood at over 92 million people.

Moreover, in this regard the comparison between the 1910 census and its 1900-conducted predecessor also mirrored the numerical relationship between that census and its predecessor in national surveys. The 1910 census has thus survived in U.S. history, beyond its immediate applicability to practical questions of governance wrestled with at the time, in showing the continued statistical upswing in American population numbers as took place as the 19th turned into the 20th century.

Respondents to the 1910 census were asked to provide various items of potential interest and statistical value about themselves in filling out the form. In view of the large numbers of immigrants then arriving from Europe and other parts of the world at the time, one question asked on the 1910 census was to the effect of whether the particular individual filling out the form had been born in the U.S. or some other country. If the answer was positive in regard to the latter possibility, then the 1910 census also looked in the current national status of that person, and her or his level of English.

 

1911 Census

1911 Census

The 1911 census was carried out for the people then living in the various areas under the dominion of the United Kingdom. As such, the census of 1911 was fixed in that year according to the established practice of the U.K. government, as had begun carrying out censuses in the year 1801 and afterwards had carried out censuses after every ten-year interval.
At present, the documentation gathered through the 1911 census can be searched online, a service offered to people for research purposes such as into questions of genealogy. This website can be found at: https://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx.  
In terms of its historical significance, the census of 1911 for the peoples of the United Kingdom bears importance beyond the basic utility and interest contained in the documents which it produced. In this respect, the census of 1911 is set apart in that the original documents through which it was compiled, the questionnaires handed out to all of the households falling under the census’s dominion, are still extant.
That being said, the present availability of 1911 census records, according to the stringent privacy laws in effect in the U.K., has occurred only within specified bounds, mostly including the mandated exclusion of certain details collected in the records and esteemed to be potentially embarrassing. In this way, any one member of the U.K. who happens to look into the census of 1911 will not be able to discern details of personal disability, identified according to contemporary practice with now-disparaging terms like “lunatic” and “dumb.”

1920 Census

1920 Census

The 1920 census was carried out in the United States through the functions of the Census Bureau. As such, the census of 1920 was the fourteenth to be carried out in the country. The results of the 1920 census, upon being fully tabulated, revealed the United States to then have, as far as was discernible to the Census workers, a population of 106,021,537 people. In historical terms, the census of 1920 is today noted for several different features which set it apart from those which were conducted before and after it.
One unique feature of the 1920 census, as was noted by the Census Bureau at the time, was that it indicated the rate of immigration into the country decreasing from the levels which had been found in previous years and censuses.
In this respect, the census of 1920 showed that the U.S. population had increased by 15% in comparison with the same figures as had been collected in the 1910 survey, which, by contrast, had found that the population had increased by more than 20% between the point when it was taken and the previous, 1900-conducted survey.
The U.S. population had increased at a comparable rate between that census and the 1890 population survey. In addition to these statistical revelations, the census of 1920 was also set apart by how the results it returned were applied, or, rather, how they were not applied. In this respect, the 1920 census did not lead to the Constitutionally-mandated House of Representatives redistricting.

1931 Census

1931 Census

The 1931 census was carried out for the people of the United Kingdom on the nights of April 26 and 27 that year, as were, respectively, a Sunday and Monday. In regard to the general practice of census-taking in the United Kingdom, the 1931 census accordingly followed that of 1921 in terms of the ten-year interval fixed for this practice by the law and practice of the U.K., as had been fixed with the proceedings of the first census for the U.K. in the 1801 period.
That being said, the 1931 census is of some interest to historians, beyond the question of the actual numbers which it produced, in terms of the context in which it took place, which was the intention to carry out censuses after only five, as opposed to ten, years.
The 1931 census was thus modified to some extent in the questions asked of respondents, who were asked as to their usual place of residence, but not where they specifically happened to be at the time that the census was taken. It was thought that such changes, thus begun with the 1931 census, would be easier for people to respond to, and that the procedure’s high costs could accordingly be lessened.
The expenses of a five-year census schedule were, however, still prohibitive and accordingly led the government to cancel its plan. In any event, the 1931 census showed that England and Wales had 39.9 million people living within their borders. This figure had two million more than had been resident at the previous census.

1940 Census

1940 Census

 
The 1940 census was carried out on the people then living in the United States to ascertain their full numbers, for the interest and use by the government of the country. As such, the 194o census was under the control of the Census Bureau, as has traditionally carried out this task for the U.S. The 1940 census marked the 16th procedure to be administered in the U.S. In the modern era, the documents produced by the 1940 census have been made available through the system of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, and can also be located through the National Historical Geographic Information System.
The 1940 census was carried out on the first of the April of that year. When fully tabulated, the results of the 1940 census revealed that the population of the United States at that time, so far as was evident to the Census Bureau, was composed of 132,164,569. In this respect, the 1940 census revealed an increase in U.S. population numbers at a rate of 7.3 in comparison with the figures collected ten years before in the 1930 census, which had showed 123,202,624 to be then resident within the borders of the nation.
In this respect, the 1940 census holds historical significance in bearing witness to the continued reduction in the population growth occurring in the United States of the mid-century, in comparison to the explosive growth which had taken place at the century’s turn and its first two centuries. The 1940 census also incorporated new queries.

2000 Census

2000 Census

The 2000 census was carried out for the population of the United States and is more commonly known as simply US Census 2000. As such, the 2000 Census, like all other American censuses, was under the administrative purview of the Census Bureau of the United States government. Among other things, US Census 2000 can be distinguished in terms of the history of the country as having been, when it was conducted, the largest-ever effort in civil administration.
Records generated from the 2000 census in the United States can be looked into at the location of the system of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. In terms of the history specifically of the US Census, the US Census 2000 stands as the twenty-fourth to have been carried out in the country.
 
The results of the 2000 census, when tabulated, indicated that the country had 281,421,906 residents, in comparison with the figure of 248,709,873 in the U.S. at the point of the previous US census in 1990. As such, it was determined that the ten-year gap between the two censuses had seen the U.S. population experiencing a 13.2% rise in numbers.
Various options for documentation were available for US Census 2000 respondents, with some 16% of the people covered under the survey choosing to take the longest version available and provide answers to more than 100 queries. Among the issues arising from the 2000 census, various concerns raised include those of redistricting not in Utah’s favor and the counting of gay and lesbian couples.