| Show census report shows families are smaller washington the size of the amerlean american family in the last decade continued the steady decrease which has been apparent in every decade since 1890 according to figures just issued by the census bureau the population per family in 1930 the bureau reported was 41 as compared with 43 in 1020 in 1010 1910 the ilia average population per family was 45 in 1000 it was wag 47 and in n 1890 40 49 the total number of families in the country however was per cent higher in 1030 than ten years ago according to the figures there were families in the united states last year more than 40 per cent of the families in the united states had bad radio sets when the census was taken in april 1930 in illinois nearly BO 50 per cent owned radios at that time while walla in the east north central area the percentage of families possessing radios was in the preliminary figures made public the bureau said the term family applied to all groups of persons whether related or not who live together as a one household usually sharing the same table one person living alone it was pointed out was counted as a family while on the other extreme all inmates of an institution or all persons living in a boarding house were alo nl o counted as a family by the census enumerators |
