Innumerable difficulties hedged about theenumerators for 1860.
If, however, the courts shall decide that the enumerators have the right to ask these questions, and that everybody must answer them, I doubt if the census will be finished for many years.
On the first appointed day, the student enumerators arrived in the morning, and I, the benefactor, joined them at twelve o'clock.
Selecting and teaching enumerators was no light job, let me tell you.
I think it will be even more fun than the manufactures end, and I heard that they're going to put on a few population enumerators from those who have been on the manufactures work, admitting them without an exam.
I guess," said Hamilton, "that supervisor had those enumerators just breaking their necks to beat out the other agents, and he worked on their pride to get up their speed.
But was there really much fraud among the enumerators and supervisors, Mr. Burns?
When I was picking the enumerators for the Gullyville district--that's away at the other end of the section from where you were--I found an unusual number of applicants.
If you think for a moment how impossible it would be to have all the supervisors and enumerators work exactly in the same style, you can see how necessary it must be for some group of persons to go over them to make them all uniform.
The supervisor of that district had said beforehand that he would be willing to appoint me, as the section was so sparse that enough qualified enumerators were hard to get.
It was a little irregular, I suppose, but the Director knew all about it and it was for the good of the census, he thought, as he had been told there were not enough enumerators in the district to which I hoped to go.
As in the investigation of the Blind, the circular letter sent to each person reported by the enumerators as deaf contained questions in regard to parentage and the existence of deaf relatives.
In the American Census the instructions to enumerators have been so diverse that statistics of the deaf have been very poor until recent years.
The fighting strength of the children of Israel at the Exodus was ascertained by a count of all males of twenty years old and upwards, made by enumerators appointed for each clan.
The census of 1831 was better, but the results were considered exaggerated, owing to the system of paying enumerators according to the numbers they returned.
The duty of filling up so comprehensive a return, involving an answer to 561 questions, is not left to the householder, but entrusted to enumerators specially engaged, working under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture.
Consequently the number of newsboys ten to fifteen years old reported by the enumerators for the entire country must have been ridiculously small.
It was fortunate that enumerators were not accustomed to carry deadly weapons.
That this was largely due to chance was shown by the fact that my fellow-enumerators found persons from all these countries.
The task in the "town by the dam site" it seemed, was proving too heavy for the regular enumerators of that district.
One by one our fellow-enumerators had dropped by the wayside, some by mutual agreement, some without any agreement whatever.
Already one or two enumerators had gone back to private life--by request.
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