1940 Census - Census of Population and Housing

The Sixteenth Census of the United States covered the continental United States, Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, the Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the military and consular services abroad, and naval services abroad or in American waters, but not at a fixed station.¹ Persons in the military services were enumerated as residents of the states, counties, and minor civil divisions in which their posts of duty were located (members of their families were enumerated at the place in which they resided). The crews of American merchant marine vessels were enumerated as part of the population of the port from which the vessel operated. [More/Less]

No apportionment had been done after the 1920 Census—the 1910 apportionment remained in effect. Consequently, the 1929 act included provisions that, for the 1930 and subsequent censuses, (unless the Congress, within a specified time enacted legislation providing for apportionment on a different basis) the apportionment should automatically be made by the method last used. In accordance with this act, a report was submitted by the President to the Congress on December 4, 1930, showing the apportionment computations both by the method of major fractions (which was used in 1910) and by the method of equal proportions. In 1931, in the absence of additional legislation, the method of major fractions was automatically followed.²

In the application of this method, the Representatives are so assigned that the average population per Representative has the least possible variation as between one state and any other. As a result, California gained three Representatives between 1930 and 1940 and six other states—Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee—each gained one. To balance these gains (since the number of Representatives in the House was not changed), nine states lost one Representative each—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

Four notable changes were made to the 1940 Census, including the addition of the housing schedule, the sampling procedure (both discussed in further detail below), the incorporation of the questions on employment and unemployment on to the general population³ schedule, and inquiries into migration.⁴

1940 Census of Housing

On August 11, 1939, a national census of housing was approved by the Congress, “to provide information concerning the number, characteristics (including utilities and equipment), and geographic distribution of dwelling structures and dwelling units in the United States. The Director of the Census shall take a census of housing in each state, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Alaska, in the year 1940 in conjunction with, and at the same time, and as part of the population inquiry of the sixteenth decennial census.”

The housing inquiries were collected via a separate census, partly because they were added by legislation late in the census planning, and partly because the nature of the questions so differed from those of the census of population.

The information collected by the two schedules was collected, however, by the same enumerator, at the same time as those for the population schedule.

Use of Sampling in the 1940 Census. The 1940 sample was a representative cross-section of the entire population. Tabulations made from the sample would be as nearly as possible the same as if information concerning every person had been obtained. The sample enlarged the scope of the census and facilitated tabulations in the following ways:

Since the supplementary questions were asked only 1/20 th (5-percents ample) as often as they would have in a complete census, the speed of field work was increased and carried out at a reduced cost, thus making it possible to carry more questions on the schedule.
Tabulations based on the sample could be completed months ahead of the regular tabulations prepared from the general population—an especially important feature in times of national emergency and for obtaining quick preliminary counts of the distribution of the labor force by area, sex, age, etc.
The reduced cost of sample tabulations permitted the publication of data that otherwise would not be possible.
Sample cards could be stored for subsequent tabulations not feasible for the entire population as the need arose.
Sampling helped to adapt the census to newly developed needs, and to maintain continuity from one census to another.

Participants were selected for the sample by designating 2 of the 40 lines on each side of the schedule as sample lines and instructing the enumerators to ask the supplementary questions for each person whose name happened to fall on these lines. This method resulted in a 5-percent sample of all the lines in each geographic area. The actual percentage of persons drawn from the sample from any district would vary by chance, depending on how the names happened to “lineup” as the enumerators proceeded with their enumeration.

¹ Again, the Philippine Islands were not included in the United States decennial census. The commonwealth of the Philippines conducted a census in 1939. The statistics from this census were then included in the data from the 1940 Census.

² In1 941, this law was amended to the effect that apportionment based on the1940 and subsequent censuses should be made by the method of equal proportions.

³ These inquiries had been made by special Census of Unemployment in 1930 (See 1930 Unemployment Census).

⁴ A question was added asking, for each person 5 years old and above, the residence on April 1, 1935. These data were coded and compared to the place of residence in 1940, thus providing, for the first time, statistics on population movement

1940 Census of Population

Vol. 1 Number of inhabitants. Total population for States, counties, and minor civil divisions; for urban and rural areas; for incorporated places; for metropolitan disstricts; and for census tracts. Comprising the first series of population bulletins for the States, Territories, and possessions. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 323.7 MB]

Vol. 2 Characteristics of the population. Sex, age race, nativity, citizenship, country of birth of foreign-born white, school attendance, years of school completed, employment status, class of worker, major occupation group and industry group. Comprising the second series of population bulletins for the States. 1943.
Part 1 United States Summary and Alabama– District of Columbia 977p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 168.0 MB]
Part 2 Florida– Iowa 1002p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 187.0 MB]
Part 3 Kansas– Michigan 934p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 162.9 MB]
Part 4 Minnesota– New Mexico 1020p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 218.2 MB]
Part 5 New York– Oregon 1053p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 275.5 MB]
Part 6 Pennsylvania– Texas 1095p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 200.8 MB]
Part 7 Utah – Wyoming. 752p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 137.5 MB]

Vol. 3 The labor force. Occupation, industry, employment, and income. Comprising the third series of population bulletins for the states. 1943.
Part 1 United States Summary 301p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 87.3 MB]
Part 2 Alabama – Indiana 1052p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 197.8 MB]
Part 3 Iowa – Montana 1014p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 475.3 MB]
Part 4 Nebraska – Oregon 1010p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 167.9 MB]
Part 5 Pennsylvania – Wyoming. 1082p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 172.6 MB]

Vol. 4 Characteristics by age: Marital status, relationship, education, and citizenship. Comprising the fourth series of population bulletins for the states. 1943.
Part 1 United States Summary 183p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 59.0 MB]
Part 2 Alabama – Louisiana 945p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 168.1 MB]
Part 3 Maine – North Dakota 903p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 139.0 MB]
Part 4 Ohio – Wyoming 919p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 169.7 MB]

Characteristics of persons not in the labor force, 14 years old and over. Age, sex, color, household relationship, months worked in 1939, and usual major occupation group. (1943) (second file in collection) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 147.9 MB]

Characteristics of the nonwhite population by race. 112p. (1943) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 20.1 MB]

Comparative occupation statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940, a comparison of the 1930 and the 1940 census occupation and industry classifications and statistics: a comparable series of occupations statistics, 1870 to 1930; and a socio-economic grouping of the labor force, 1910 to 1940. 206p (1943) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 41.6 MB]

Differential fertility, 1940 and 1910.* - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 122.8 MB]
Fertility by duration of marriage … 338p (unavailable)
Fertility for States and large cities. 281p. (first file in collection)
Women by number of children under 5 years old. 1945. 265p. (second file in collection)
Standardized fertility rates and reproduction rates. A supplement to the report designated Fertility for States and large cities. 1944. 40p. (third file in collection)
Women by number of children ever born. 1945. 410p. (not available)

Education. 1943– 1947.
Education. Educational attainment of children by rental value of home.(1945). 50p. (first file in collection) (unavailable)
Educational attainment by economic characteristics and marital status based upon… 1947. 226p (second file in collection) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 62.4 MB]
Education, occupation and household relationship of males 18 to 44 years old. .(1943) (fifth file in collection) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 147.9 MB]

Estimates of labor force, employment, and unemployment in the United States, 1940 and 1930.(1944) * - PDF, Full Document [ZIP, MB]

Internal migration, 1935 to 1940.* - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 176.2 MB]
Age of migrants.382p. 1946.
Economic characteristics of migrants. 223p. 1946.
Social characteristics of migrants. 270p. 1946.
Color and sex of migrants. 490p. 1943. (Dubester 991) (not included in collection)

The labor force (sample statistics).
Part 1. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 147.9 MB]
Employment and personal characteristics. 177p (first file in collection)
Employment and family characteristics of women. 1943. 212p. (third file in collection)
Wage or salary income in 1939. 1943. 194p. (fourth file in collection)
Part 2. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 164.2 MB]
Industrial characteristics. 1943. 174p.
Occupational statistics. 1943. 256. (Dubester 998)
Usual occupation. 1943. 63p.

Nativity and parentage of the white population. 1943. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 163.9 MB]
Country of origin of the foreign stock by nativity, citizenship, age, and value or rent of home for States and large cities. 122p.
General characteristics, age, marital status, and education, for states and large cities. 279p. 1943.
Mother tongue, by nativity, parentage, country or origin, and age, for States and large cities. 58p.

Special report on institutional population 14 years and over. Characteristics of inmates in penal institutions, and in institutions for the delinquent, defective and dependent. 361p. 1943. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 54.1 MB]

State of birth of the native population. 78p. 1944. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 21.0 MB]

Unincorporated communities, United States, by states. Total population of unincorporated communities having 500 or more inhabitants for which separate figures could be compiled. 32p. 1943. * - Full Document [PDF, 5.9 MB]

Families.
Employment status; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more. 110p. 1943 (unavailable)
Family wage or salary income in 1939; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more. 156p. 1943. (unavailable)
Size of family and age of head; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more., 127p. 1943. (unavailable)
Types of families; regions and cities of 1,000,000 or more. 221p . * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 173.8 MB]

1940 Census of Housing

Vol. 1 Data for small areas. Selected housing statistics for States, counties, and minor civil divisions; for urban and rural l areas; for incorporated places; and for metropolitan districts. Comprising the first series of housing bulletins for States.
Part 1. United States summary and Alabama – Nebraska. 936 p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 173.6 MB]
Part 2. Nevada – Wyoming. 802p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 185.2 MB]

Vol. 2 General characteristics. Occupancy and tenure status, value of home or monthly rent, size of household and race of head, type of structure, exterior material, year built, conversion, state of repair, number of rooms, housing facilities and equipment, and mortgage status. Comprising the second series of housing bulletins for States.
Part 1. United States Summary 200p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 41.2 MB]
Part 2. Alabama– Indiana 1019p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 183.0 MB]
Part 3. Iowa– Montana 1037p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 293.4 MB]
Part 4. Nebraska– Pennsylvania 1024p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 207.4 MB]
Part 5. Rhode Island – Wyoming. 980p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 272.4 MB]

Vol. 3 Characteristics by monthly rent or value. Comprising the third series of housing bulletins for the States.
Part 1. United States Summary 165p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 33.7 MB]
Part 2. Alabama – New Hampshire 888p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 220.3 MB]
Part 3. New Jersey – Wyoming. 860p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 140.4 MB]

Vol. 4 Mortgages on owner-occupied nonfarm homes. Comprising the fourth series of housing bulletins for the States.
Part 1. United States Summary. 97p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 17.6 MB]
Part 2. Alabama – New York. 1082p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 226.1 MB]
Part 3. North Carolina – Wyoming. 1003p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 336.3 MB]

Characteristics by type of structure. Regions, states, cities of 100,000 or more, and principal metropolitan districts. 1945. 402p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 58.6 MB]

1940 Census of Population and Housing

Families. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 234.8 MB]
Characteristics of rural-farm families; regions and divisions.
General characteristics; states, cities of 100,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of 200,000 or more. 332p. 1943.
Income and rent; regions, cities of 1,000,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of 1,000,000 or more. 237p. 1943.
Tenure and rent; regions, cities of 1,000,000 or more, and metropolitan districts of 500,000 or more. 1943. 141p.

1940 Census of Agriculture

Vol. 1 Statistics for counties. Farms and farm property, with related information for farms and farm operators, livestock and livestock products, and crops. First and second series State reports. 1942
Part 1 – New England, Middle Atlantic, and East North Central States. 975p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 184.2 MB]
Part 2 – West North Central States. 857p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 203.7 MB]
Part 3 – South Atlantic States. 784p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 147.6 MB]
Part 4 – East South Central States. 485p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 111.5 MB]
Part 5 – West South Central States. 653p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 128.7 MB]
Part 6 – Mountain and Pacific States. 784p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 128.2 MB]

Vol. 2 Statistics for counties. Value of farm products farms classified by major source of income; farms classifies by value of products. Third series state reports.
Part 1 The Northern States 888p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 163.0 MB]
Part 2 The Southern States 919p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 165. MB]
Part 3 The Western States. 315p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 67.9 MB]

Abandoned or idle farms; number and acreage, with classification of those reporting acreage by cause of nonoperation and by year of abandonment. Statistics for counties and a summary for the United States. A special study, 202p. 1943. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 32.0 MB]

Cash rent paid, or payable, by cash tenants and by part owners renting on a cash basis. 135p. 1944. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 29.9 MB]

Cows milked and dairy products. Number of cows milked, milk produced, disposition of dairy products, and number of cows kept mainly for milk production, classified by number of cows milked, by counties; with related data for other classes of livestock and livestock products, for the states and for the United States. 556p. 1942. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 99.7 MB]

Crop-sharing contracts, memorandum regarding legal relations and rights of parties when land owned by one is cultivated by the other under agreement to share the crops; prepared by James H. Graves. 45p. 1943. * - Full Document [PDF, 10.5 MB]

Cross-line acreage. A special study; farms reporting and acreage by place of enumeration and by location of acreage, with relationship to all farms, by counties, with a summary for the United States; 1940 and 1935. 311p. 1943. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 45.3 MB]

Handbook: descriptions and illustrations of the uses of agriculture census statistics in education, business, research, and visual analysis; with explanations of the technique of tabulation and procedures. 1943. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 115.8 MB]

Ranking agricultural counties. The rank of the leading counties in the United States in agriculture and agricultural products, 1940 and 1939, with comparisons, 1930 and 1929. 1943. 85p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 13.6 MB]

Special cotton report. Farms reporting, acreage, and production and value of farm products by number of bales harvested. With statistics for counties and a summary for the United States. 1943. 265p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 78.9 MB]

Special poultry report. Statistics by geographic divisions and states for poultry of all kinds on hand and raised; by counties for chickens on hand; and by counties for farms reporting chickens and turkeys raised, by numbers raised. 1942. 739p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 133.1 MB]

Value of farm products by color and tenure of farm operator. Statistics, by color and tenure of farm operator, on the value of farm products sold, traded, or used by farm households ... A special study. 1944. 291p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 85.0 MB]

Analysis of specified farm characteristics for farms classified by total value of products. 1943. 221p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 37.7 MB]

Farm-mortgage indebtedness in the United States. 1943-44.
Release no. 1 Number of mortgaged farm. 1943. 12p. (unavailable)
Release no. 2. Amount of farm-mortgaged debt. 1944. 15p. (unavailable)

Irrigation
Irrigation of agricultural lands. Irrigation enterprises, areas, irrigation works, investment, indebtedness, maintenance and operation, water used, pay roll and employees, and irrigated crops, with detailed statistics for drainage basins and counties, and summaries for states and the United States. 1942. 689p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 121.4 MB]

Irrigation of agricultural lands. Tabular and graphic presentation of specified irrigation census statistics. 1943. 42p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 8.0 MB]

Drainage
Drainage of agricultural lands. Land in drainage enterprises, capital invested and drainage works. Statistics for counties with state and United States summaries and a synopsis of drainage laws. 1942. 683p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 104.4 MB]

Drainage of alluvial lands. A comparison of agriculture within and outside of drainage enterprises in the alluvial lands of the lower Mississippi valley. 1943. 97p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 46.4 MB]

Manufactures: 1939
Vol. 1 Statistics by subjects. 438p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 82.3 MB]

Vol. 2 Reports by industries.
Part 1. Groups 1 to 10. 936p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 214.2 MB]
Part 2. Groups 11 to 20. 708p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 144.7 MB]

Vol. 3 Reports for States and outlying areas. 1192p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 198.7 MB]

Man-hour statistics for 171 selected industries, March 1942., 189p (unavailable)

Changes in distribution of manufacturing wage earners, 1899-1939. 1942. 268p. (unavailable)

Mineral Industries
Vol. 1 General summary and industry statistics. 876p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 187.1 MB]

Census of Business
Vol. 1 Retail Trade: 1939. 1941-43
Pt 1. United States summary and types of operation, credit sales, and receivables, monthly employment, and other subjects. 882p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 191.7 MB]
Pt 2. Commodity sales and analysis by sales, size. 923p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 143.8 MB]
Pt 3. Kinds of business, by areas, States, counties, and cities. 854p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 129.0 MB]

Vol. 3 Service establishments, places of amusement, hotels, tourist course and tourist camps. 1939. 1942. 637p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 94.3 MB]

Vol. 5 Distribution of manufactures’ sales, 1939. 1942. 206p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 30.1 MB]

Areas of the United States. 1940. 1942. 465p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 110.1 MB]

Population. Number of Inhabitants. Alaska. 8p. (first in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Population. Characteristics of the population (with limited data on housing). Alaska. 1943. 20p. (second in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Population. First Series. Number of Inhabitants. Hawaii. (fifth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Population. Second Series. Characteristics of the population. Hawaii. 1943. 35p. (sixth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Housing. General characteristics. Hawaii. 1943. 27p. (seventh in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

American Samoa. Population. Agriculture. 1941. 12p. (fourth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Panama Canal Zone. Population. 1941. 28p. (ninth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Puerto Rico. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]
Puerto Rico. Population. Bulletin no. 1-4. 1942-1946.
Bulletin 1 Number of inhabitants. 1942/ 12p. (eleventh in file)
Bulletin 2 Characteristics of the population. 1943. 82p. (twelfth in file)
Bulletin 3 Occupations and other characteristics by age. 1943. 106p. (Thirteenth in file)
Bulletin 4 Migration between municipalities. 1946. 81p. (fourteenth in file)
Puerto Rico. Housing. Viviendas. Caracteristicas generales. General Characteristrics. 1943. 121p. (fifteenth in file)
Population and Housing. General characteristics. Virgin Islands of the United States. 1943. 22p. (tenth in file)

Agriculture. Territories and possessions. Reports on agriculture in the territories of Alaska and Hawaii; and the following possessions: Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. 1943. 306p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 55.2 MB]

Manufactures: 1939. Reports for outlying areas. 1943. 38p (eighteenth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Census of Business: 1939. Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Retail trade, wholesale trade, service establishments, places of amusement and hotels. 1943. 42p. (seventeenth in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Alphabetical index of occupations and industries . Occupation and industry classifications based on the respective standard classifications. 1940. 607p. (unavailable)

Census of Manufactures: 1939. Alphabetical list of products. 1940. 169p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 19.6 MB]

Census of Manufactures: 1939. Industry classifications. 1940. 100p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 10.4 MB]

Census of Manufactures: 1939. Industry classifications (Corrected to June 2, 1941). 1940. (unavailable)

Classified index of occupations . Occupation classification based on the standard classification. 1940. 199p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 38.1 MB]

Key to the published and tabulated data for small areas (preliminary). Population – housing – business – manufactures – agriculture. Washington, 1941. 66p. (unavailable)

United States life tables and actuarial tables, 1939-1941. 1946. 153p. (unavailable)

Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940. 1943. 1051p. (unavailable)

Census of Irrigation – 1940 … Irrigation by drainage basin – 1939. 1942. (unavailable)

Map of the United States showing location of land in drainage enterprises. (unavailable)

United States, irrigation by drainage basins, 1939. 17 Western States, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida (unavailable)

Housing . Analytical maps ... block statistics; Prepared and duplicated by New York City WPA War Services. 1943-6. (Folio) 96 volumes (unavailable)

Population . First series. Number of inhabitants. 1941-1942. 53 pamphlets. (third in file) * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 155.3 MB]

Population . First series. Number of inhabitants. United States summary. 1941. 75p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 17.6 MB]

Population . Second series. Characteristics of the population. 1941-1942. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Population . Second series. Characteristics of the population. United States summary. 1941. 195p * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 43.2 MB]

Population . Third series. The labor force: Occupation, industry, employment and income. 1942. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Population . Fourth series. Characteristics by age, marital status, relationship, education, and citizenship. 1943. 49 pamphlets (unavailable)

Housing . First series. Data for small areas. 1941-1942. 49 pamphlets. (Dubester 1151) (unavailable)

Housing . First series. Data for small areas. United States Summary. 1942. 39p (unavailable)

Housing . Supplement to the First series housing bulletin for … Block statistics. 1942. 195 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Housing. . Second series. General characteristics … 1941-1942. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Housing. Third series. Characteristics by monthly rent or value. 1942-1943. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Housing. Fourth series. Mortgages on owner-occupied nonfarm homes. Supplement A. Homes built in 1935-1940. United States, regions, States, and cities, and metropolitan districts of 250,000 inhabitants or more. 1943. 265p. (unavailable)

Housing.. Fourth series. Mortgages on owner-occupied nonfarm homes. Supplement B. Homes occupied by nonwhite owners. United States, regions, divisions, and selected States and cities. 1943. 65p. (unavailable)

Population and housing. Statistics for census tracts. 1941-1943. 58 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Agriculture . First series. Uses of land, principal crops and classes of livestock with statistics for vcounties. 1941. 48 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Agriculture , United States summary. First series. Uses of land, principal crops and classes of livestock with statistics for geographic divisions and States. 54p. (unavailable)

Agriculture. Second series. Farm mortgages, taxes, labor, facilities, expenditures, and miscellaneous farm information, fruits, vegetables, and minor crops with statistics for counties. 1941-1942. 48 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Agriculture . United States summary. Second series. Farm mortgages, taxes, labor, facilities, expenditures, and miscellaneous farm information, fruits, vegetables, and minor crops with statistics for geographic divisions and States. 1942. 85p. (unavailable)

Agriculture. Third series. Value of farm products, farms classified by major source of income and by total value of products with statistics for counties. 1941-1942. 48 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Agriculture . United States summary. Third series. Value of farm products, farms classified by major source of income and by total value of products with statistics for geographic divisions and States. 1942. 85p. (unavailable)

Irrigation of agricultural lands… Enterprises, areas, works and equipment, capital invested, and maintenance and operation costs, with statistics for counties and drainage basins. 1941-1942. 18 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Drainage of agricultural lands … Land in drainage enterprises, capital invested, and drainage works, with statistics for counties. 1941-1942. 36 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Drainage of agricultural lands. United States summary. Land in drainage enterprises, capital invested, and drainage works, with statistics for counties. 1941-1942. 57p. [reprint] (unavailable)

Manufactures: 1939. Industry classifications for the Census of Manufactures, 1939. 1942. 34p. (unavailable)

Manufactures: 1939. Power equipment and energy consumption. 1942. 61p. (unavailable)

Manufactures: 1939. State series … Number of establishments; personnel; salaries and wages; cost of materials, etc; value of products; value added by manufacture. 1941-1942. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Analysis by city-size groups. 1942. 40p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Credit sales and receivables.1941. 169p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Monthly employment. Sex of employees. 1941. 236p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 59.7 MB]

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Types of operation. 1941. 157. (unavailable)

Sales-finance companies and banks’ holdings of retail installment paper with supplemental data on other types of consumer indebtness. 1940.56p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Commodity sales. 1941-1942. 13 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Analysis by sales size. 1941. 255p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Retail trade. Kinds of business, by areas, counties, and cities. 1941. 49 pamphlets. (unavailable)

Business-size groups and an analysis of operating expenses (wholesale merchants and industrial distributors). 1941. 120p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Wholesale trade. Cash-credit analysis of sales and receivables and inventories (service and limited-function wholesalers, and manufacturers’ sales-branches). 1942. 99p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 17.0 MB]

Census of Business: 1939. Wholesale trade. Commodity sales. Sales analyzed by commodities or lines of merchandise. 1942. 226p (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Wholesale trade. Employment by months and employment and pay roll for one week, 1941. 150p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Wholesale trade. Petroleum distribution. Bulk stations and distributing terminals. 1941. 63p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Service establishments. Analysis by size based on volume of receipts. 1942. 16p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Service establishments. Legal forms of organization. 1941. 17p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Service establishments. Monthly employment and sex of employees. 1941. 90p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Service establishments. States, counties, and cities. 1941. 251p. (unavailable)

Census of Business: 1939. Tourist courts and tourist camps. 1942. 17p. (unavailable)

Preliminary Releases
Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series P-3:
No. 23. Population. Japanese population of the United States and its territories and possessions. December 9, 1941. 3p. (unavailable)
No. 24. Population. Japanese population by nativity or citizenship in selected cities in the United States: 1940. December 10, 1941. 1p. (unavailable)
No. 25. Population. Japanese population in the Pacific Coast States by sex and nativity or citizenship, by counties: 1940. Dec 11, 1941. [5] p. (unavailable)

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series P-9:
No. 1. Population. Foreign-born Germans and Italians in selected cities of the United States. December 12, 1941. 2p (unavailable)
No. 4. Population. Citizenship of the foreign-born white population in selected cities of the United States. December 16, 1941. 3p. (unavailable)
No. 5. Japanese population in selected counties and cities of the United States by sex and nativity or citizenship: 1940. December 19, 1941. 49p. (unavailable)
No.8. Population. Preliminary figures on employment status, occupation, and industry for the Japanese population of the Territory of Hawaii: 1940. February 2,1942. 3p. (unavailable)
No.9. Population. Characteristics of the Japanese population of the Territory of Hawaii: 1940. February 2,1942. 3p (unavailable)
No. 11. Population. Trends in the proportion of the nation’s labor force engaged in agriculture: 1820 to 1940. March 28, 1942. 2p. (unavailable)
No. 13. Population. Reserve labor supply among women in the United States. May 11, 1942. 4p. (unavailable)

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series P-10:
No. 20. Population. Racial composition of the urban and rural population of the United States, by regions, divisions and States: 1940. November 14, 1942. 6p. (unavailable)
No. 21. Population. Age color and sex composition of the population n urban places classified by size and in rural areas, for the United States, by regions: 1940. March 5, 1943. 8p. (unavailable)

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series P-14:
No. 13. Population. All experienced persons in the labor force by occupation and industry, for the United States: 1940. October 29, 1943. 10p. (unavailable)

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series P-15:
No. 5. Population. Foreign white stock of Germans and Italian origin: 1940. September 30, 1942. September 30, 1942. 6p (unavailable)

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940: Series H-3:
No. 2. Housing. Urban vacancy in the United States by county: 1940. May 23, 1941. 1p and map. (unavailable)
No. 3. Housing. Housing figures for urban places classified by size of place, for the United States and geographic divisions: 1940. September 8,1941. 4p (unavailable)

Instructions to district supervisors for business and manufactures, 1939. Published: Washington 1939. (unavailable)

Instructions to enumerators for business and manufactures, l939. Sixteenth decennial census of the United States ... Author: United States. Bureau of the Census. Published: [Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1939] (unavailable)

Technical instructions to enumerators [for] business and manufactures. Author: United States. Bureau of the Census. Published: Washington, 1939. With: Instructions to district supervisors for business and manufactures / United States. Bureau of the Census. 1939. (unavailable)

Housing
Supplement to the First series housing bulletin. Block statistics. / Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population.<1941> Published: Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941-42. (unavailable)

Catalog of 16th Decennial Census Publications * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 64.2 MB]

Census of Manufactures, Mines and Quarries, Petroleum and Natural Gas, 1919. Instructions to Special Agents. 71p. * - Title Page [PDF], Full Document [ZIP, 5.1 MB]

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