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The twelfth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on 1 June 1900,[1] determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 Census.
[edit] Census Questions
The 1900 census collected the following information[2]:
- address
- name
- relationship to head of family
- sex
- race
- age
- marital status and, if married, number of years married
- for women, number of children born and number now living
- place of birth of person, and their parents
- if foreign born, year of immigration and whether naturalized
- occupation
- months not employed
- school
- ability to speak English
- whether on a farm
- home owned or rented, and, if owned, whether mortgaged
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