The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . t gives complete and detailed statistics for theState to which it relates. The Abstract was prepared with the idea of making it possibleto supply, in one volume, condensed but comprehensive statis-tics relating to the country as a whole, together with completeand detailed information regarding a particular State, and thusto a great extent it took the place of the complete reports pub-lished at previous censuses. With the belief that this was, for 17 THE STORY OF THE CENSUS Scheme ofpresentationof ThirteenthCensus reports. the general pub
The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . t gives complete and detailed statistics for theState to which it relates. The Abstract was prepared with the idea of making it possibleto supply, in one volume, condensed but comprehensive statis-tics relating to the country as a whole, together with completeand detailed information regarding a particular State, and thusto a great extent it took the place of the complete reports pub-lished at previous censuses. With the belief that this was, for 17 THE STORY OF THE CENSUS Scheme ofpresentationof ThirteenthCensus reports. the general public, the most important volume to be issued inconnection with the Thirteenth Census, it was given precedenceand right of way over the main reports, and consequently, insteadof being one of the last volumes to appear, as had been the caseat former censuses, it was the first. There were various other differences between the scheme ofpresentation of the results of the Thirteenth Census and that VALUE OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS IN 1909—PERCENTAGES (p. 35).. formerly employed. These differences need not be discussed inthis pamphlet; but a brief description of the Thirteenth Censuspublications themselves, and of their relationships to oneanother, may be of covered. The Thirteenth Census covered the subjects of population(including occupations), agriculture, manufactures, and minesand quarries, and its geographic scope comprised continentalUnited States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. The statisticswhich were first ready for publication, and especially thosewhich were in greatest demand (such, for example, as the aggre-gate population of individual cities and States, and of the UnitedStates as a whole), were first given out in the form of press tS THE STORY O F THE CENSUS Value op Mineral Products in 1909—Percentages (p. 35). announcements. Later they were presented in greater detail inthe form of ofBcial bulletins, still later in Uie Abstract withits supplements,
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