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What do the columns on the schedule marked “code” mean?

April 26, 2017code columns marked mean schedule

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What do the columns on the schedule marked “code” mean?

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Following questions 21 and 26, the Bureau listed codes. These codes provide no additional information. After the Bureau collected the census schedules, the staff, not the enumerator, coded the information on occupations and nativity using codes established for the 1930 census. The Bureau staff tabulated this data to create the statistical summaries for its reports to Congress.