CENSUS OF 1887.

DE JURE OR RESIDENT POPULATION BY SEX, RACE, AND NATIONALITY.

DE FACTO OR PRESENT POPULATION BY SEX, RACE, AND NATIONALITY.

FORM OF POPULATION SCHEDULE.

If the population schedule adopted for the Porto Rican census be compared with the schedule of the Eleventh Census of the United States, it will be found that, while in general design they are the same, they differ in respect to the number of inquiries, and that the latter is the more comprehensive of the two. This is quite natural and results from the simple and homogeneous character of the population of Porto Rico, in which a less extensive investigation is necessary to determine the state of the population than in the United States. In Porto Rico the industries of the people are quite limited and a very large majority of the population is native.

The population schedule used in the present census, translated into English and reduced in size, is as follows:

18,143 absent residents are included.