Census Questions
The 1870 census collected the following information • name • address • age • sex • color (including Chinese and Indian) • citizenship for males over 21 • profession, occupation or trade • value of real estate owned • value of personal estate • place of birth • whether father and mother were foreign born • born within the year • married within the year • attended school within the year • whether able to read and write (for persons 10 years old and over) • whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic
Full documentation for the 1870 population census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
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