Census of Population, 1950: A Report of the Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States. Volume II, Characteristics of the population : Number of inhabitants, general and detailed characteristics of the population

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952

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Halaman xv - ... with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county or counties containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are essentially metropolitan in character and are socially and economically integrated with the central city.
Halaman xvii - The terms household, quasi-household and family are used in this table as defined in 1950 by the Bureau of the Census. A household includes all of the persons who occupy a house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a room that constitutes a dwelling unit.
Halaman xvii - family," as used in this report, refers to a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such persons are considered as members of the same family.
Halaman xvii - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit as partners, is also counted as a household.
Halaman xxi - Employed persons comprise those, who, during the survey week, were either (a) "at work" — those who did any work for pay or profit, or worked without pay for 15 hours or more on a family farm or business; or (b) "with a job but not at work...
Halaman xv - In New England, the city and town are administratively more important than the county, and data are compiled locally for such minor civil divisions.
Halaman xv - Although there may be several cities of 50,000 or more in a standard metropolitan area, not all are necessarily central cities. The largest city in a standard metropolitan area is the principal central city. Any other city of 25,000 or more within a standard metropolitan area having a population amounting to one-third or more of the population of the principal city is also a central city.
Halaman xv - Specifically, these criteria are: 1. The county must (a) contain 10,000 nonagricultural workers or, (b) contain 10 percent of the nonagricultural workers working in the standard metropolitan area or, (c) have at least one-half of its population residing in minor civil divisions with a population density of 150 or more per square mile and contiguous to the central city. 2. Nonagricultural workers must constitute at least two-thirds of the total number of employed persons of the county.
Halaman xviii - Inmates of institutions are persons for whom care or custody is provided in such places as homes for delinquent or dependent children; homes and schools for the mentally or physically handicapped; places providing specialized medical care for persons with mental disorders, tuberculosis, or other chronic disease; nursing and domiciliary homes for the aged and dependent; prisons; and jails.
Halaman xv - Fifteen percent or more of the workers residing in the contiguous county work in the county containing the largest city in the standard metropolitan area, or 2. Twenty-five percent or more of the persons working in the contiguous county reside in the county containing the largest city in the standard metropolitan area, or 3.

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