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APPENDICES. (399) APPENDIX ... t\.-SCHEDULES USED IN THE HOUSE-TO-HoUSE INQUIRY. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. CONDITION OF THn NEGROnS OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SnVEN.-Family Schedule, I. ~ o o DECEMBER I, 1896. No. _ I. NUMBER OF PERSONS IN THIS FAMILY _ INQUIRIES. Investigator. 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 II 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Relationship to head of family ? Sex? . Age at nearest birthday? . Conjugal condition? ... Place of birth? . . . . . . . . . . . . Length of residence in Philadelphia? Length of residence in this house? . Able to read? . . . . . . . . . . . . . Able to write? . Months in school during last school year? . . . . . . . . Graduate or attendant at any time of any higher school? . Attendant of any industrial school? . . . . . Occupations since December I, 1891 ? Present occupation? . Place of work? . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { week ly ? ...••.... Average income from present occupation Inonthly? . yearly? . Weeks unemployed at above occupation during last twelve tnonths? . Weeks employed at any other occupation during last twelve months? Name of such other occupation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Average weekly earnings at such other occupation? ...•..... Number of days sick during last twelve months? . . . . . . . . . . . Nature of illness? ..............•............ Sound and healthy in mind, sight, hearing, speech, limbs and body? . When and where have attempts been madeto find other employment j Why was application refused? . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~. ~ 27 ; Amount of real estate owned? 28 I Situation of such real estate? 2911 Amount of other property? 30 Memberof what building, secret. beneficial or insurance societies, or labor union? 31 Average monthly dues to such societies? 3 2 Budget: Total income of family from all sources for one year? Expenditure for one year? . Expenditure for Weekly. I Monthly.' Yearly. Expenditure (or Weekly. IMonthly I Yearly. Rent. Food. Fuel .. Clothing Total expenditure for one year? Total savings for one year? 1----1---- 1----11 1---,Amusements Tobacco .... Alcoholic drinks . . Sickness and Death . All other Purposes ~ ~ ~ ~ 331 Chief form of amusement? 34 Member or attendant of what church? 35 Non-resident members of family? 36 Occupation and address of same? 37 Remarks ~ o .... 40 2 Appendix A. UNIVERSITY OF PE~NSYLVANIA. INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONDITION OF THE NSGROItS OF PHII.ADEI.PHIA. Instructions for Family Schedule. A family schedule must be made out for every group of two or more related person~ living under conditions of family life. Boarders, lodgers and servants, are to be entered on separate individual schedules. Hotels, etc., should be entered on an institution schedule, and the inmates on family and individual schedules. Question 1. Enter here the number of persons in the family, exclusive of lodgers, boarders, visitors or servants. Question 2. Facts for the head of the family should be entered in the first column, and he or she should be designated as Head, whether man, woman, married or single. Give the other members the term which will indicate their relation to the head; as wife, son, daughter, sister, etc, or mother (£. e. mother of head of family), etc. Question 3. Abbreviate to M. (male), or F. (female). Question 4. Give exact years, as, 17, 29, 31, 43, etc., and do not say If about" 25, 30, 35,40. Enter children less than one year old on the rst of December, in twelfths of a month, as 6-12, 3-12, etc.; or if not one month old, as 0- 12. Question 5. Enter as married (mar.), single (sing.), widowed (wid.), and separated (sep.). Question 6. Give State and town. Questions 7 and 8. Give approximate number of years. Question 11. This refers to the children of the family. Questions 12 and 13. Write "Graduate-Girls' High, '96"; or "Attendant Institute for Colored Youthv g yrs.," etc. Schools higher than common schools are here referred to. Answer this for all members of the family. Questions 14 and IS. This is an important inquiry. Simple as it appears, it is always difficult in census work to get satisfactory replies to this question. Inaccuracy and insufficiency of statement are the most prominent evils to be avoided: For instance, remember: we want to know not what a man " works in," but just what he does. We want to distinguish between: the owner or director of a business and one who works at it; between waiters and head-waiters: between cooks in private families and in hotels; between coachmen, hackmen, and draymen; between merchants and pedlars, and those who keep stands. Do not say: " Printer," but" compositor, " or "pressman ;" not" mechanic," but "carpenter" or "plumber;" not "agent," but "real-estate agent;" not" merchant" or "pedlar," but" dry-goods merchant" or...

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