The 1900 United States census, conducted by the
Census Office on June 1, 1900, determined the resident
population of the
United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.01% from the 62,979,766 persons
enumerated during the
1890 census
The United States census of 1890 was taken beginning June 2, 1890, but most of the 1890 census materials were destroyed in 1921 when a building caught fire and in the subsequent disposal of the remaining damaged records. It determined the reside ...
. It was the last census to be conducted before the founding of the permanent United States Census Bureau.
The census saw the nation's largest city,
New York City, more than double in size due to the
consolidation with Brooklyn, becoming in the process the first U.S. city to record a population growth of over three million.
Oversight of the statistics was by Frederick Howard Wines and
Walter F. Willcox
Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from ...
.
Census questions
The 1900 census collected the following information:
* address
* name
* relationship to head of family
* sex
* race (listed as "Color or race" on the census)
* age, month and year born
* 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
Full documentation for the 1900 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
Data availability
The original census enumeration sheets were
microfilmed by the Census Bureau in the 1940s, after which the original sheets were destroyed.
The microfilmed census is available in rolls from the
National Archives and Records Administration. Several organizations also host images of the microfilmed census online, and digital indices.
Microdata Microdata can mean:
* Microdata (statistics), a statistical term for individual response data in surveys and censuses
* Microdata (HTML), a specification for semantic markup in HTML
* Microdata Corporation
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from the 1900 census are freely available through the
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the
National Historical Geographic Information System.
State rankings
City rankings
Locations of 50 most populous cities
References
External links
1901 U.S. Census Report(contains 1900 census results)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200717185528/https://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/PopulationofStatesandCountiesoftheUnitedStates1790-1990.pdf
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