Basic Census Questions

The Count, last night I gave you a quick answer through my phone app. I'll go into more detail now. Basically, the quick answers were: (1) Yes, use "unnumbered pages" and count them if feasible; using the database's image number in the second layer will help to guide the user to the right page. (2) Yes, it is okay.

But let's probe this a bit deeper.

Identification of census:

• Censuses of populous areas are divided into districts of various types. These need to be identified. In this particular case, your linked page tells us that the page is from the 1st Election Dist. of the 6th Ward. That needs to be included.
• The identification of a census as a "population schedule" occurs when we are using a census that has different types of schedules. (For example, a federal census in 1850–80 has a population schedule, a mining schedule, an agricultural schedule, a mortality schedule, etc. In that case we have to identify the specific schedule.) I don't see an indication that this census has multiple schedules with different data.  EE's census chapter provides a fuller discussion of these schedules.

Identification of people:

• You use the phrase "Julia Anderson household." As you note, however, this census does not divide the population into households and dwellings. Julia Anderson and her children might actually be living in the household of the "family" before her. Accuracy would require us to identify the people at the cited numbers, but not name a household. This is a basic example of why citations are not built on formulaic words that must be used every time we cite a specific kind of source. We have to analyze each source we use and choose the words that most accurately identify the situation.

Identification of database:

• Ancestry has tens of thousands of databases. Its census offerings often appear in a database that carries a broader title or one that is worded slightly differently. Re-finding a database is a lot easier if our citation includes the exact name of the database. That exact name is placed in quotation marks before our reference to Ancestry, following the standard pattern for citing a chapter in a book, an article in a journal, or a database at a website. 
• In addition to citing the exact title of the database, we also cite the image number—just as we would cite the page number in a chapter, a book, or a journal article.
• This particular database at Ancestry is organized into very structured divisions; menu options guide us down a path to the specific page. The exact path that got you to the page is shown at the head of the census. Relocating the specific page is easier if we cite the path.

Putting all this together would modify your citation this way (using different colors for each layer):

1892 New York state census, Cayuga County, Auburn, 1st Election Dist., 6th Ward, unnumbered page, lines 333–338, for Julia, Louis, Edward, James, Richard, and Julia Anderson; image, "New York, U.S., State Census, 1892," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 December 2020) > Cayuga > Auburn Ward 06 > E.D. 01 > image 6; citing “New York State Education Department, Office of Cultural Education; New York State Library, Albany, NY.”