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1930 United States Census, Pennsylvania

Background: The United States Census of 1930 was the 15th decennial census conducted in the United States under authority granted by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. It was conducted in April 1930, except in Alaska, where it was conducted in late 1829. Until 2012 the 1930 Census is the latest available to the public, due to 72-year privacy laws. It is based on actual counts of persons living in residential structures.

Summary: The 1930 Census determined the population of the United States to be 122,775,046. This is an increase of almost 16 percent over the 1920 Census, which reported a population of 106,021,537.

Data Collected: The 1930 Census collected the following information:

name
address
relationship to head of family
home owned (and value) or rent (and amount of monthly rent)
whether owned a radio set
whether on a farm
gender
race
age
marital status and, if married, age at first marriage
school attendance
literacy
birthplace
parents' birthplace
if foreign-born, language spoken at home before coming to US, year of immigration, whether naturalized, ability to speak English
occupation, industry, and class of worker
whether at work the previous regular work day
veteran status
if Indian, tribal affiliation and whether of full or mixed blood

WorldVitalRecords.com offers searchable indexes of 1930 Census data, linking to digitized images of census rolls at Footnote.com.

Also at WorldVitalRecords.com: A wide variety of other US census data is available at WorldVitalRecords.com.

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