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The Fourteenth Census Act of July 2, 1909, provided for the 1920 and subsequent censuses; however, numerous minor changes were sought prior to the census, so a new law was enacted on March 3, 1919.
Persons having no fixed place of abode were required by the census law to be enumerated where they slept on the night of January 1, 1920.2
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The 1920 Census was begun on 1 January 1920. All questions asked were supposed to refer to that date.
In 1920 the census included, for the first time, Guam, American Samoa, and the Panama Canal Zone.3
Population Census Items
Address; name; relationship to family head; sex;
race; age; marital status; if foreign born, year of
immigration to the U.S., whether naturalized, and
year of naturalization; school attendance; literacy;
birthplace of person and parents; mother
tongue of foreign born; ability to speak English;
occupation, industry, and class of worker; home
owned or rented; if owned, whether free or
mortgaged.1
Historical Forms and Questions
In 1920, the scope of the census was already broadening. It was the first time data specialists experimented with crop sampling. Forms were printed for Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, although there was no Indian schedule for 1920. Population schedules for the "Military and Naval Population, etc., Abroad" were printed with a simplified occupation inquiry.
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