LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

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LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

Legg inn av Gjest » 17 nov 2006 07:13:13

While I seem to recall that someone once posted the location of a list
of "occupations" that show up in US census pages, but now that I need
it, can't find it. I've GOOGLEd and Cindy's listed, and I just found
something for the UK. Would prefer just a list, without the definitions,
but beggars can't be choosey.

Chi Bob

jj206

Re: LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

Legg inn av jj206 » 17 nov 2006 09:25:19

geni-guy@nospam.net wrote:
While I seem to recall that someone once posted the location of a list
of "occupations" that show up in US census pages, but now that I need
it, can't find it. I've GOOGLEd and Cindy's listed, and I just found
something for the UK. Would prefer just a list, without the definitions,
but beggars can't be choosey.

Chi Bob


Hi,

Is this what you are looking for ? You didn't say what year.
Here is 2002.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex/ ... oad02.html

ciao,

Jonathan

Gjest

Re: LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

Legg inn av Gjest » 18 nov 2006 05:02:51

jj206 wrote:

geni-guy@nospam.net wrote:
While I seem to recall that someone once posted the location of a list
of "occupations" that show up in US census pages, but now that I need
it, can't find it. I've GOOGLEd and Cindy's listed, and I just found
something for the UK. Would prefer just a list, without the definitions,
but beggars can't be choosey.

Chi Bob

Hi,

Is this what you are looking for ? You didn't say what year.
Here is 2002.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex/ ... oad02.html

ciao,

Jonathan

Thanks, Jonathan, but I was looking for something just a little bit earlier --
say 1910. The site you gave helped me to phrase a google search to find what I
needed. Unfortunately, it was 138 pages log, and went into minute detail (eg
not just INSPECTOR, but INSPECTOR - FACTORY; INSPECTOR - FOOD; etc). I don't
think I'll be around in 2074, but its nice to know that those that are will
have a source for their 2002 research.

Chi Bob

jj206

Re: LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

Legg inn av jj206 » 18 nov 2006 19:26:29

geni-guy@nospam.net wrote:
jj206 wrote:

geni-guy@nospam.net wrote:
While I seem to recall that someone once posted the location of a list
of "occupations" that show up in US census pages, but now that I need
it, can't find it. I've GOOGLEd and Cindy's listed, and I just found
something for the UK. Would prefer just a list, without the definitions,
but beggars can't be choosey.

Chi Bob
Hi,

Is this what you are looking for ? You didn't say what year.
Here is 2002.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex/ ... oad02.html

ciao,

Jonathan

Thanks, Jonathan, but I was looking for something just a little bit earlier --
say 1910. The site you gave helped me to phrase a google search to find what I
needed. Unfortunately, it was 138 pages log, and went into minute detail (eg
not just INSPECTOR, but INSPECTOR - FACTORY; INSPECTOR - FOOD; etc). I don't
think I'll be around in 2074, but its nice to know that those that are will
have a source for their 2002 research.

Chi Bob


Hmmmm 1910 huh ? Well if the list is 138 pages long, then you can use
control-F short cut in windows and search a document for a job title.
Or is this list something you wanted to print out ?

I did find a 1910 list of US Census abbreviations... It is short and
contains some job abbreviations in it.

http://www.searchforancestors.com/recor ... tions.html

How about this webpage ? Any better ? It is the questions the US census
asked people as they went door to door.

http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1910.shtml

And I found an old occupation list for Canada:

http://www.immigrationandvisas.com/canada/can_occ97.htm

And also I found the US census instructions on how to fill out the forms
for job & occupations: (it contains some abbreviations the US census
used. It is kinda long, but an interesting read

cheers,

Jonathan

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https://www.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1910.html

OCCUPATION

144. Column 18. Trade or profession.—An entry should be made in this
column for every person enumerated. The occupation, if any, followed by
a child, of any age, or by a woman is just as important, for census
purposes, as the occupation followed by a man. Therefore if must never
be taken for granted, without inquiry, that a woman, or child, has no
occupation.

145. The entry in column 18 should be either (1) the occupation
pursued—that is, the word or words which most accurately indicate the
particular kind of work done by which the person enumerated earns money
or a money equivalent, as physician, carpenter, dressmaker, night
watchman, laborer, newsboy; or (2) own income; or (3) none (that is, no
occupation).

146. The entry own income should be made in the case of all persons who
follow no specific occupation but have an independent income upon which
they are living.

147. The entry none should be made in the case of all persons who follow
no occupation and who do not fall within the class to be reported as own
income.

148. Persons retired or temporarily unemployed.—Care should be taken in
making the return for persons who on account of old age, permanent
invalidism, or otherwise are no longer following an occupation. Such
persons may desire to return the occupations formerly followed, which
would be incorrect. If living on their own income the return should be
own income. If they are supported by other persons or institutions, the
return should be none. On the other hand, persons out of employment when
visited by the enumerator may state that they have no occupation, when
the fact is that they usually have an occupation but merely happen to be
idle or unemployed at the time of the visit. In such cases the return
should be the occupation followed when the person is employed.

149. Persons having two occupations.—If a person has two occupations,
return only the more important one—that is, the one from which he gets
the more money. If you can not learn that, return the one at which he
spends the more time. For example: Return a man as farmer if he gets
most of his income from farming, although he may also follow the
occupation of a clergyman or preacher; but return him as clergyman if he
gets more of his income from that occupation.

150. Column 19. Industry.—An entry should be made in this column in all
cases where the entry in column 18 has been that of an occupation. But
where the entry in column 18 is own income or none, leave this column
blank. The entry, when made, should consist of the word or words which
most accurately describe the branch of industry, kind of business or
establishment, line or work, or place in which this person works, as
cotton mill, general farm, dry-goods store, insurance office, bank. (See
also illustrative examples on page 36.)

151. The purpose of columns 18 and 19 is thus to bring out, on the one
hand, in column 18, the specific occupation or work performed, if any,
by each person enumerated, and on the other hand, in column 19, the
character of the industry or place in which such work is performed.

152. Farm workers.—Return a person in charge of a farm as a farmer,
whether he own it or operates it as a tenant, renter, or cropper; but a
person who manages a farm for some one else for wages or a salary should
be reported as a farm overseer; and a person who works on a farm for
some one else, but not a manager, tenant, or cropper, should be reported
as a farm laborer.

153. Women doing housework.—In the case of a woman doing housework in
her own home, without salary or wages, and having no other employment,
the entry in column 18 should be none. But a woman working at housework
for wages should be returned in column 18 as housekeeper, servant, cook,
or chambermaid, as the case may be; and the entry in column 19 should
state the kind of place where she works, as private family, hotel, or
boarding house. Or, if a woman, in addition to doing housework in her
own home, regularly earns money by some other occupation, whether
pursued in her own home or outside, that occupation should be returned
in columns 18 and 19. For instance, a woman who regularly takes in
washing should be reported as laundress or washerwoman, followed in
column 19 by at home.

154. Women doing farm work.—A woman working regularly at outdoor farm
work, even though she works on the home farm for her husband, son, or
other relative and does not receive money wages, should be returned in
column 18 as a farm laborer. Distinguish, however, such women who work
on the home farm from those who work away from home, by writing in
column 19 either home farm or working out, as the case may require. Of
course, a woman who herself operates or runs a farm should be reported
as a farmer, and not as a "farm laborer."

155. Children on farms.—In the case of children who work for their own
parents on a farm, the entry in column 18 should be farm laborer and in
column 19 home farm; but for children who work as farm laborers for
others, the entry in column 19 should be working out.

156. Children working for parents.—Children who work for their parents
at home merely on general household work, on chores, or at odd times on
other work, should be reported as having no occupation. Those, however,
who materially assist their parent in the performance of work other than
household work should be reported as having an occupation.

157. Keeping boarders.—Keeping boarders or lodgers should be returned as
an occupation if the person engaged in it relies upon it as his (or her)
principal means of support or principal source of income. In that case
the return should be keeper—boarding house or keeper—lodging house. If,
however, a family keeps a few boarders or roomers merely as a means of
supplementing or eking out the earning or income obtained from other
occupation or from other sources, no one in the family should be
returned as a boarding or lodging house keeper.

158. Officers, employees, and inmates of institutions or homes.—For an
officer or regular employee of an institution or home, such as an
asylum, penitentiary, jail, reform school, convict camp, state farm
worked by convicts, etc., return the occupation followed in the
institution. For an inmate of such institution, if regularly employed,
return the occupation pursued in the institution, whether the employment
be at productive labor or at other duties, such as cooking, scrubbing,
laundry work, etc.; but if an inmate is not regularly employed—that is,
has no specific duties or work to perform, write none in column 18.

159. Avoid general or indefinite terms.—Give the occupation and industry
precisely. For example, return a worker in a coal mine as a miner—coal
mine, laborer—coal mine, driver—coal mine, etc., as the case may be.

160. The term "laborer" should be avoided if any more precise definition
of the occupation can be secured. Employees in factories and mills, for
example, usually have some definite designation, as weaver, roller,
puddler, etc. Where the term "laborer" is used, be careful to define
accurately the industry in column 19.

161. Avoid in all cases the use of the word "mechanic," but give the
exact occupation, as carpenter, painter, machinist, etc.

162. Distinguish carefully the different kinds of "agents" by stating in
column 19 the line of business followed.

163. Distinguish carefully between retail and wholesale merchants, as
retail merchant—dry goods, wholesale merchant—dry goods.

164. Avoid the use of the word "clerk" wherever a more definite
occupation can be named. Thus a person in a store, often called a clerk,
who is wholly or principally engaged in selling goods should be called a
salesman. A stenographer, typewriter, accountant, bookkeeper, or
cashier, etc., should be reported as such, and not as a clerk.

165. Distinguish a traveling salesman from a salesman in a store; the
former preferably should be reported as a commercial traveler.

166. If any person in answer to the occupation question says that he is
"in business," you must find out what branch of business and what kind
of work he does or what position he holds.

167. Illustrations of occupations.—The following examples, in addition
to the occupations given in the illustrative schedule, will illustrate
the method of returning some of the common occupations and industries;
they will also suggest to you distinctions which you should make in
other cases: [figure follows]

168. Column 20. Whether employer, employee, or working on own
account.—For one employing persons, other than domestic servants, in
transacting his own business, write "Emp" (for employer). For a person
who works for wages or a salary, write "W" (for wage earner). For a
gainful worker who is neither an employer nor an employee, write "OA"
(for own account). For all persons returned as having no occupation,
leave the column blank.—

169. Employer.—An employee is one who employs helpers, other than
domestic servants, in transacting his own business. The term employer
does not include the superintendent, agent, manager, or other person
employed to manage an establishment or business, and it does not include
the foreman of a room, the boss of a gang, or the coal miner who hires
his helper. All such should be returned as employees, for, while any one
of these may employ persons, none of them does so in transacting his own
business. Thus no individual working for a corporation either as an
officer or otherwise should be returned as an employer.

170. A person employing domestic servants in his own home but not
employing any helpers in his business should not be returned as an
employer. But, on the other hand, a persons who is the proprietor of a
hotel or boarding or lodging house and employs servants in running that
hotel or boarding or lodging house should be returned as an employer,
because he employs these servants in his business.

171. Employee.—Any person who works for wages or a salary and is subject
to the control and direction of an employer, is an employee, whether he
be president of a large corporation or only a day laborer, whether he be
paid in money or in kind, and whether he be employed by his own parent
or by another. The term employee does not include lawyers, doctors, and
others who render professional service for fees, and who, in their work,
are not subject to the control and direction of those whom they serve.
It does include actors, professors, and others who are engaged to render
professional service for wages or salaries. A domestic servant should
always be returned as an employee even though, as previously explained,
the person employing a domestic servant is not always returned as an
employer.

172. Working on own account.—Persons who have a gainful occupation and
are neither employers are considered to be working on their own account.
They are the independent workers. They neither pay nor receive salaries
or regular wages. Examples of this class are: Farmers and the owners of
small establishments who do not employ helpers; professional men who
work for fees and employ no helpers; and, generally speaking, hucksters,
peddlers, newsboys, bootblacks, etc., although it not infrequently
happens that persons in these pursuits are employed by others and are
working for wages, and in such case should, of course, be returned as
employees.

173. Illustrative examples.—In many occupations a man may be either an
employer, an employee, or working on own account. For example, a
physician is working on his own account if, as explained above, he works
for fees solely and employs no helpers; if, however, he employs an
assistant in his office he become an employer; but if he works for a
salary, say in a hospital or institution, he is an employee. It may
happen, however, that he receives a salary and also works for fees, in
which case he should be classed with respect to his principal source of
income.

174. A dressmaker who works out by the day for day wages should be
returned as an employee; but a dressmaker who works at home or in her
own shop should be returned as working on own account, unless she
employs helpers, in which case he becomes an employer.

175. Similarly, a washerwoman or laundress who works out by the day is
an employee, but a washerwoman or laundress who takes in washing is
either working on own account, or, it may be, is an employer.

176. Case of wife working for husband or child working for
parents.—When, in accordance with the preceding instructions, a wife
working for her husband or a child working for its parents is returned
as having an occupation, the wife or child should be returned as an
employee, even though not receiving wages. The husband or parent in such
case should be returned as an employer, unless, as may happen, he is
working for wages, in which case he, as well as the wife or child,
should be classed as an employee.

177. What is meant by "out of work."—The purpose of inquiries 21 and 22
is to ascertain the amount of enforced unemployment—the extent to which
persons want work and can not find it. Do not , therefore, include those
with those "out of work" those who are on a strike, those who are
voluntarily idle, those who are incapacitated for any work, or those who
are on sick leave or on a vacation. School-teachers, artists, and music
teachers are often unemployed during a portion of the year, but should
not be considered as "out of work," in the sense in which the term is
used for the purposes of the census.

178. Column 21. If an employee, whether out of work on April 15,
1910.—If a person reported as an employee (W) in column 20 was out of
work on April 15, 1910, write "Yes," but if such person had work on that
date, write "No." For persons other than employees, leave the column blank.

179. Column 22. If an employee, number of weeks out of work during year
1909.—If a person reported as an employee (W) in column 20 was out of
work during any part of the year 1909, enter the number of weeks out of
work; but if such person was not out of work at all during the year, do
not leave the column blank, but write "0." For persons other than
employees, leave the column blank.

180. A person not employed at his principal or usual occupation but
engaged in some side or temporary work is not to be considered as
unemployed, the intent of this question being to find out the number of
weeks during which the person was unable to secure any employment.

teacup

Re: LIST OF "OCCUPATIONS" SHOWN IN CENSUS ???

Legg inn av teacup » 20 nov 2006 00:59:39

geni-guy@nospam.net wrote in
news:455D52B1.A2070E30@nospam.net:

While I seem to recall that someone once posted the
location of a list of "occupations" that show up in US
census pages, but now that I need it, can't find it. I've
GOOGLEd and Cindy's listed, and I just found something for
[snip]


Census Book by William Dollarhide
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/prod ... /help/cens
us_book.html

Relationship Terms and Abbreviations Used in the Soundex and
Miracode Systems

Adopted ........................... Ad
Adopted Child .................. Ad.Cl
Adopted Daughter ................ Ad.D
Adopted Grandchild ............ Ad.Gcl
Adopted Mother .................. Ad.M
Adopted Son ..................... Ad.S
Apprentice .........................Ap
Attendant ......................... At
Assistant ....................... Asst
Aunt ............................... A
Aunt-In-Law ....................... Al
Bartender ........................ Bar
Boarder ........................... Bo
Bound Girl .................... B.Girl
Bound Boy ...................... B.Boy
Boy .............................. Boy
Brother ............................ B
Brother-In-Law .................... Bl
Butler ............................ Bu
Captain .......................... Cap
Chamber Maid ..................... Cha
Child ............................. Cl
Coachman ......................... Coa
Companion ........................ Com
Cook ............................ Cook
Cousin ............................. C
Cousin-In-Law .................... Cil
Daughter ........................... D
Daughter-In-Law ................... Dl
Day Laborer ...................... Dla
Dish Washer ....................... Dw
Domestic ......................... Dom
Employee ......................... Emp
Engineer .......................... En
Farm Hand ....................... Fa.H
Farm Laborer .................... Fa.L
Farm Worker ..................... Fa.W
Father ............................. F
Father-In-Law ..................... Fl
Fireman ........................... Fi
First Cousin ................. First C
Foster Brother .................. Fo.B
Foster Sister .................. Fo.Si
Foster Son ...................... Fo.S
God Child ..................... God Cl
Governess ......................... Go
Grand Child ...................... Gcl
Grand Daughter .................... Gd
Grand Father ...................... Gf
Grand Mother ...................... GM
Grand Mother-In-Law .............. Gml
Grand Son ......................... Gs
Grand Son-In-Law ................. Gsl
Grand Niece ...................... Gni
(same as Great Niece)
Great Niece ............................ Gni
Grand Nephew ...................... Gn
(same as Great Nephew)
Great Nephew ........................ Gn
Great Grandmother ................ Ggm
Great-Great-Grandfather ......... Gggf
Great-Great-Grandmother ......... Gggm
Guardian ......................... Gua
Guest .......................... Guest
Half Sister ..................... H.Si
Half Sister-In-Law ............. H.Sil
Half Brother ...................... Hb
Half Brother-In-Law .............. Hbl
Help ............................ Help
Herder ............................ He
Hired Girl ...................... H.Gi
Hired Hand ....................... H.H
Hireling ......................... Hlg
Housekeeper ....................... Hk
Housemaid ..................... H.Maid
House Worker ...................... Hw
Husband ...................... Husband
Inmate ........................ Inmate
Laborer ........................... La
Laundry .......................... Lau
Lodger ............................. L
Maid ............................ Maid
Manager .......................... Man
Matron ........................... Mat
Mother ............................. M
Mother-In-Law ..................... Ml
Nephew ............................. N
Nephew-In-Law ..................... Nl
Niece ............................. Ni
Niece-In-Law ..................... Nil
Nurse ............................. Nu
Officer ............................ O
Partner ........................... Pa
Patient ............................ P
Physician ......................... Ph
Porter ........................... Por
Principal ........................ Pri
Prisoner .......................... Pr
Private .......................... Prv
Pupil ............................. Pu
Roomer ............................. R
Sailor ............................ Sa
Saleslady ........................ Sal
Servant ........................... Se
Servant's child ................ Se.Cl
Sister ............................ Si
Son ................................ S
Son-In-Law ........................ Sl
Step Brother ...................... Sb
Step Brother-In-Law .............. Sbl
Step Child ....................... Scl
Step Daughter ..................... Sd
Step Daughter-in-Law ............. Sdl
Step Father ....................... Sf
Step Father-in-Law ............... Sfl
Step Granddaughter ............... Sgd
Step Grandson .................... Sgs
Step Mother ....................... Sm
Step Mother-in-Law ............... Sml
Step Sister ...................... Ssi
Step Sister-in-Law .............. Ssil
Step Son .......................... Ss
Step Son-In-Law .................. Ssl
Superintendent .................... Su
Tenant ........................... Ten
Uncle .............................. U
Uncle-ln-Law ...................... Ul
Visitor ........................... Vi
Waiter ............................ Wt
Waitress ......................... Wai
Ward ............................ Ward
Warden ............................ Wa
Wife ............................... W
Workman .......................... Wkm

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