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Show ENUMERATORS ARE COUMPEOPLE ARMY OF 85,000 PERSONS EXPECT TO COMPLETE FOURTEENTH CENSUS IN TWO WEEKS. Census Includes the Collection of Data on Farms, Forests and Oil Production, Pro-duction, in Addition to Enumeration Enumer-ation of Persons. Washington. Friday morning, January Jan-uary 2, an army of S5.000 enumerators began to count the men, women and children of the United States and to collect certain information about the resources of the country. The taking of the fourteenth census is expected to require "about two weeks but figures showing the total popula-' tion probably will not be available until the end of April. Workers sally forth with an especially espec-ially prepared portfolio nud a commission com-mission signed by Sain L. Kogers, chief of the bureau. The count is expected to show a population of from 107,000,-d00 107,000,-d00 to 112,000,000, as compared with 93,000,000 in 1910. The estimated population pop-ulation on July 1, 1919, was 106.871,284. Cards will be collected by 372 supervisors sup-ervisors . aud forwarded to headquarters headquar-ters here, where 4000 tabulating clerks will work. Totals for each of the items on the cards will be computed by specially designed machines. Officials-expect to be able to make a preliminary estimate of the population popula-tion of the larger cities in March, but returns for the country districts will not be completed until later. The census' includes the collection of data on farms, forests and oil production, pro-duction, in addition to the enumeration enumera-tion of persons. The fourteenth decennial de-cennial census is the first to be taken during the winter months. While severe se-vere weather may be a handicap in some sections, the change is made in order that the enumeration might be completed before the election primaries primar-ies of the summer. For the first time women have been employed as supervisors. super-visors. Maximum pay allotted by law Is 4 cents a person, with a higher rate for farm hands. Congress appropriated appropri-ated $22,000,000 for the work. |