Census Bureau's "By Decade" website
Includes a variety of publications, questionnaires, datasets, and more
Highlights
Questions asked (see questionnaire)
Information obtained from all persons: Address; whether house is on farm; name; relationship to head of household; race; sex; age; marital status; place of birth; if foreign born, whether naturalized; employment status; hours worked during week preceding enumeration; occupation, industry, and class of worker.
Information obtained from 20-percent sample: Whether living in same house a year ago; whether living on a farm a year ago; if not in same house, county and state of residence year ago; country of birth of parents; educational attainment; school attendance; if looking for work, number of weeks; weeks worked last year; for each person and each family, earnings last year from wages and salary, from self-employment; other income last year; veteran status.
Information obtained from 3-1/3 percent sample: For persons who worked last year but not in current labor force: occupation, industry, and class of worker on last job; if ever married, whether married more than once; duration of present marital status; for women ever married, number of children ever born.
Supplemental schedules for persons on Indian reservations; infants born in the first 3 months of 1950; Americans overseas.
Census Of Population Vol. I: Number of Inhabitants |
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Census Of Population Vol. II: Characteristics of the Population |
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Census Of Population Vol III: Census Tract Statistics (64 pts) |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Employment and Personal Characteristics |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports.Occupational Characteristics |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports.Occupation by Industry |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Industrial Characteristics |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. General Characteristics of Families |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Institutional Population |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Marital Status |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Duration of Current Marital Status |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Nativity and Parentage |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Nonwhite Population by Race |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Persons of Spanish Surname |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Puerto Ricans in Continental United States |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. State of Birth |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Population Mobility - States and State Economic Areas |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Population Mobility - Farm - Nonfarm Movers |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Population Mobility - Characteristics of Migrants |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Characteristics by Size of Place. |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Education |
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Census Of Population Vol IV Special Reports. Fertility |
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Census of Housing Vol. I: General Characteristics |
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Census of Housing Vol. II: Nonfarm Housing Characteristics |
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Census of Housing Vol. III: Farm Housing Characteristics |
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Census of Housing Vol. IV: Residential Financing, Mortgaged Nonfarm Properties |
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Census of Housing Vol. V: Block Statistics (213 pts) |
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Portfolio of United States Census Maps |