Census Bureau's "By Decade" website
Includes a variety of publications, questionnaires, datasets, and more
Highlights
Questions asked (see questionnaire)
Address; nickname; relationship to head of family; sex; race; age; marital status; month of birth if born within the census year; married within the year; occupation; number of months unemployed during year; sickness or temporary disability; whether blind, deaf and dumb, idiotic, insane, maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled; school attendance; literacy; place of birth of person and parents. Supplemental schedules for the Indian population; for persons who died during the year; insane; idiots; deaf-mutes; blind; homeless children; prisoners; paupers and indigent persons.
For more information:
Find all 1880 census publications in the Library.
Key publications:
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Vol I: Statistics of the population of the United States |
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Vol II: Report on the manufactures of the United States (11pts) |
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Vol III: Report on the production of agriculture (6 pts) |
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Vol IV: Report on agencies of transportation (5 pts) |
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Vol V-VI: Report on cotton production(2 pts) |
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Vol VII: Report on valuation, taxation, and public indebtedness |
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Vol VIII: (4 pts) The newspaper and periodical press; Alaska: its population, industries, as resources; The seal islands of Alaska; Ship-building industry |
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Vol IX: Report on the Forests of North America |
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Vol X: Production technology, and uses of petroleum; The manufacture of coke; Building stones of the United States, and statistics of the quarry industry for 1880. |
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Vol XI-XII: Report on the mortality and vital statistics (2 pts) |
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Vol XIII: Statistics and technology of the precious metals |
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Vol XIV: The United States mining laws |
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Vol XV: Report on the mining industries |
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Vol XVI-XVII: Reports on water-power (2 pts) |
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Vol XVIII-XIX: Report on the social statistics of cities (2 pts) |
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Vol XX: Report on the statistics of wages in manufacturing industries |
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Vol XXI: Report on the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes of the population |
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Vol XXII: Report on power and machinery employed in manufactures (7 pts) |
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Compendium of the tenth Census (2 pts) |
