The Census of Manufactures
In preparation for the census of 1929, the Secretary of Commerce appointed an Advisory Committee on the Census of Manufactures, whose membership of 25 comprises important manufacturers, economists, statisticians, students of labor conditions, and others interested in the census statistics. This committee, after a careful and intensive study, made certain recommendations to the Bureau of the Census in regard to the form of schedule to be used in the census for 1929. All these recommendations were adopted. The committee took the stand that, since the coming census not only will form one of the biennial series, which began a decade ago, but will also be included in the decennial series, which extends back for more than three-quarters of a century, its results should be published in such form and detail as to be fairly comparable with those of preceding decennial censuses. To this end the schedules adopted were expanded considerably as compared with those used at the preceding biennial census. As compared with the 1919 schedules they call for somewhat more detail in some directions and for somewhat less in others. In all, one general schedule and 166 special schedules will be used. The outstanding differences between the general inquiries-those which appear on both the general and the special schedules-for 1929 and the corresponding inquiries made at the census for 1919 are as follows: