Use of "household" in census citations

By Anonymous on Mon, 05/23/2016 - 02:48

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I'm a little confused when to include the word "household" in census citations.

EE3 6.31 has this First Reference Note:

1910 U.S. census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Bronx Assembly District 33, precinct 19, p. 269 (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 38, sheet 6-A, dwelling 37, family 124, Jacob Sounheimer; NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 999.

When is it appropriate (or useful) to include "household"?  For example:

1910 U.S. census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Bronx Assembly District 33, precinct 19, p. 269 (stamped), enumeration district (ED) 38, sheet 6-A, dwelling 37, family 124, Jacob Sounheimer household; NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 999.

(Incidentally, should the ED be 1513, not 38?)

I've consistently included "household" as above, but I noticed it only is used in this way in EE3 6.32,

I suspect the first sentence in EE3 6.6 would answer my question, but unfortunately I don't understand it.

Brian

Submitted byEEon Mon, 05/23/2016 - 09:22

Brian, yes, 6.6 offers the explanation.  In diffrent words: one basic rule of citation is to cite what is relevant to the situation at hand. For censuses, the two basic options would be these.

  • If the text to which we attach our citation dicusses a person who is a head-of-household on the census, then our citation to the census can simply cite him.
  • If the text to which we attach our citation discusses a person who is not a head-of-household, then a citation would note that he was in XYZ's household.

And thanks for catching the typo. I've just flagged it for correction in the next printing.