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A census is a survey where in the state takes the data of each and every individual who is a citizen of the country. This is mainly done in almost all the countries around the world in order to calculate the increase or decrease in the population of the country. In most of the cases it is done after every ten years time. The Federal Census which took place in the year 1780 was the first of its kind in the United States. It was the first census that was undertaken after the formation of the Federal Government of the state. After that this census is calculated after every 10 alternate years by the government and the results are declared on the first day of June which is regarded as the official census day for the United States. The census is conducted in order to find about the lives of people in United States. Almost all of them have the same kind of question that is asked to the people. However in some instances these questions are changed depending on the policy which is made by the President’s office.

The 1880 database is an index of about 50 million people who were enumerated for the census. It recorded the details including the person’s name, address, and occupation, relationship to the head of the household, race, and sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth and place of birth of the parents.

The census of 1900 is an index database of the twelfth census for the United States. In this census there were few more questions that were incorporated from that of the previous one. These were as follows:

1. Number of years married

2. The total number of children born of the mother

3. Number of those children living at the current moment

4. In case of the immigrants, their years of stay in the United States was also questioned

The 1920 census was very significant because there was a constitutional requirement that house seats be reapportioned according to the population. However it was not done due to some politically unfriendly environment among the ruling and the opponent parties. The questions that were asked in this census are as follows:

1. Address

2. Name

3. Relationship to head of family

4. Sex

5. Race

6. Age

7. Marital status

8. If foreign born, year of immigration to the U.S., whether naturalized and, if so, year of naturalization

9. School attendance

10. Literacy

11. Birthplace of person and parents

12. If foreign-born, the mother tongue

13. Ability to speak English

14. Occupation, industry, and class of worker

15. Whether home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether free or mortgaged

In the 1920 census report it was found that the most populated city was New York while the least number of people lived in Nevada.
The questions of the 1930 census were very much similar to that of 1920. It saw an increase in the rate of population by 13.7% on the total population. The highest population was again marked by New York while the lowest was again recorded by Nevada.
The 1940 census still saw an increase in the level of population by 7.3% over the last census. In this case the date of the census was the first day of April. This census introduced sampling techniques; one in 20 people were asked the additional question in the census form. Other innovations included field test during the census of 1940.