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S.I. No. 76/1926 - The Statistics (Census of Population) Order, 1926.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. Micheal Hoskins Head 63 1 M. Married Limerick City. — Surgeon Own Account - - None
2. May Hoskins Wife 58 7 F. Married Wales, Cheshire. — Home Duties — 30 3 4 —
3. Micheal Hoskins Son 28 5 M. Single Dublin City English and Irish. Solicitor Employer - - —
4. John Hoskins Son 25 3 M. Single Dublin City — Civil Engineer Own Account - - —
5. Joan Hoskins Daughter 20 4 F. Single Dublin City English and Irish. Medical Student — - - —
6. Margaret Dempsey Servant 23 1 F. Single Dublin City — General Domestic Servant. Private - - —
III. INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING UP COLUMNS (
k
) AND (
l
)
Persons not principally occupied in working for payment or profit.
(1) If studying or preparing for any particular profession or occupation write in column (
k
) " Agricultural Student," " Medical Student," " Law Student," " Wireless Student," etc., as the case may be. But apprentices or persons training under similar terms should be entered as actually filling the occupations to which they are apprenticed. Youths who have left school, and who are seeking employment, but who have not yet found it, should be entered in column (
k
) as " not yet at work." For children under 12, columns (
k
) and (
l
) should be left blank.
(2) For a member of a private household (such as a householder's wife) who is mainly occupied in unpaid domestic duties at home, write " home duties."
(3) For a member of a household who is chiefly occupied in giving unpaid help in a business carried on by the head of the household or other relative, for instance, sons or daughters of farmers assisting on their father's farm, state the occupation in column (
k
) as though it were a paid occupation, adding after it " assisting father." " assisting brother," etc., as the case may be. The name of the head of the business should be stated in column (
l
) as if he were an ordinary employer, together with the nature of the business. The head of such a household should (if he does not employ any paid hands on his farm or in his business) write with regard to himself, " on own account " in column (
l
).
(4) For a clergyman, nun or other member of a religious body who is engaged in teaching or in other service or industry, state in column (
k
) clergyman, teacher ; nun, in charge of laundry ; Christian Brother, teacher; etc.
(5) If retired from an occupation or service and not following any other regular occupation, state former occupation or service in column (
k
), adding " retired." In column (
l
) should be filled up the business of former employer (if any).
(6) For other persons not included above who are mainly dependent on others' earnings or upon their own or others' private means, write " none " or " not occupied for a living " in column (
k
) and leave column (
l
) blank.
Persons principally occupied in working for payment or profit.
(7) For a person named in column (
a
) who follows more than one paid occupation, state only that by which the living is mainly earned. For instance, a person who is a " farmer," a " cattle dealer," and a " publican," should be described in column (
k
) by only one of these three occupations—the principal one.
(8) The
precise
character of the occupation should be stated, whether the worker is at work or not. Persons should not be described merely by such vague terms as " Assistant," " Collector," " Factory Hand," " Inspector," " Mill-hand," " Operative," " Machinist," " Manufacturer," " Contractor," " Merchant," etc.
(a) Dealers and Makers.—Such shopkeepers and retail dealers as "Tailors," " Bootmakers," " Jewellers," " Silversmiths," " Bakers," etc., and their assistants are in many cases engaged partly in making and partly in selling. If they are mainly engaged in selling, the word " " Shopkeeper " or " Shop Assistant," as the case may be, should be added in column (
k
) after the above description, but if mainly engaged in making or producing, the word " Maker" should be added.
The descriptions of traders and of makers should be sufficient to show the article or group of articles dealt in or made, as in the above or in the following description:—" Cattle Dealer," " Pig Dealer," " Coal Merchant," " Green Grocer," " Cycle Agent," " Hardware Shopkeeper," " Sweet Shopkeeper," " Flour Miller," " Creamery Manager," etc.
(
b
) Labourers usually employed on some one kind of work, should
always
be described
fully,
by the kind of work done, for instance, " Farm Labourer," " Bricklayer's Labourer," " Carpenter's Labourer," etc. Special care must be taken in filling in column (
l
).
(
c
) Civil Service, Municipal Service, Defence Force, etc. State the post or rank as " Post Office Sorter," " Relieving Officer," " Sergeant in Civic Guard," " Private in National Army," etc.
(
d
) Nurses.—State whether " Nurse (domestic)," " General Hospital Nurse," " Mental Nurse," " Maternity Nurse," etc.
(
e
) Foremen and Overlookers should state the department or branch of work in which they are employed.
(
f
) The following descriptions of occupations (in which the words in italics are in alphabetical order), are sufficient. The words in italics should not be used alone ; a more detailed description, such as the following, should be given :—
Chartered Accountant
;
Cycle Agent ; Apprentice ; Draper's Assistant ; Music Hall Artiste ; Shop Assistant ; Fitters' Assistant ; Paper Bag Maker ; Book Binder ; Cardboard Box Maker ; Iron Caster ; Chemical Worker (Processman) ; Stationery Engine Cleaner ; Bank Clerk ; Law Clerk ; Booking Clerk ; Accountant's Articled Clerk ; Road Contractor ; Building Contractor; Electrician (Motor Attendant) ; Electrician (Wireman) ; Heating Electrical Engineer ; Civil Engineer ; Coal Factor ; Boiler Foreman ; Saw Mill Foreman ; Railway Ticket Inspector ; Hosiery Joiner ; Coach Joiner ; Farm Labourer ; Road Labourer ; Dock Labourer ; Bricklayer's Labourer ; Warehouse Labourer ; Woodworking Machinist ; Advertising Manager ; Sales Manager ; Machine Manager ; General Manager ; Flour Mill Owner ; Domestic Nurse ; Hospital Nurse ; Mental Nurse ; Loom Overlooker ; Roller Painter ; Boiler Plater ; Electro Plater ; instead of the word Printer use Compositor, Machine Minder, etc. ; Potato Salesman ; instead of Shopkeeper state Sweet Shopkeeper, Green-Grocer, Tobacconist, etc. ; Letter Sorter ; Boiler Stoker ; Glass Furnace Stoker ; Iron Turner.
N.B.—Other workers should describe their job by the special name (if any) by which it is known in the industry or manufacture.
(9) Name and Business of Employer.
(
a
) This information is required in column (
l
) for the statistical purpose of classifying persons employed according to industry or service with which their work is connected and will not be published. A bricklayer employed in a brewery should state " Bricklayer " in column (
k
) and " Messrs. . . . . ., Brewers," in column (
l
) ; a carpenter engaged by a firm of Flourmillers should state " Carpenter " in column (
k
) and " Messrs. . . . . Flourmillers," in column (
l
).
(
b
) When the Person's employer is engaged in two or more businesses, whether in the one establishment or in distinct establishments, state in column (
l
) the precise branch of business in which the Person is employed—see Second example in Section II. above.
(
c
) Opposite the names of every Person in column (
a
) who is employed in connection with a farm (as farmer or otherwise) there must be entered in column (
l
) the area of that farm in statute acres after the word "Employer," " Own Account," or " Farmer," as the case may be.—See First and Second Examples in Section II. above.
(
d
) In the case of domestic servants or other persons in Private Personal Service, the word " Private " should be entered in column (
l
) and the name and business of the employer must
not
be stated. But for cooks, waitresses, chambermaids, etc., employed in Hotels, Restaurants, Boarding-houses, etc., the name and business of the employer should be stated.
FORM B—HOUSE AND BUILDING RETURN
Return of Houses and Buildings Inhabited or Uninhabited (including those in course of erection, etc.)
County or County Borough....................................District Electoral Division or Ward............................Townland or Street..............................
Urban District, Town or Village................................Enumeration District.........................................Sub-District...................................
Note.—Where a Townland or Street is partly within or partly without an Urban District, Town or Village, a separate Form B should be filled for each portion
FORM B.—HOUSE AND BUILDING RETURN.
RETURN OF HOUSES AND BUILDINGS INHABITED OR UNINHABITED (INCLUDING THOSE IN COURSE OF ERECTION, ETC.).
County or County Borough................................
Urban District, Town or Village..........................
District Electoral Division or Ward........................
Enumeration District........................................
Townland or Street.........................................
Sub-District................................................
Note.—Where a Townland or Street is partly within and partly without an Urban District, Town or Village, a separate Form B. should be filled for each portion.
HOUSES AND BUILDINGS.
Col. 1. Postal Number, Name, etc., of House (if any).
If a private dwelling-house, write 1 in the correct column below to indicate whether it is being built, or if built, whether inhabited or uninhabited.
If not a private dwelling-house—
Col. 5. State Description—Whether a boarding-school, day-school, hospital, factory, warehouse, barracks, mental hospital, etc.
Place 1 in correct column below to indicate whether building or whether, if built, it is inhabited or uninhabited.
FAMILIES, ETC.
Approved
GORDON CAMPBELL,
Secretary.
Department of Industry and Commerce.
February, 1926.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Return is correct, according to the best of my knowledge and belief.
..................................Enumerator.
......day of..................192....
If one room is occupied by more than one Family, the names of the Heads of Families so occupying it should be bracketed together in Col. 10 thus—
and the figure 1 entered in Col. 16 opposite the middle of a similar bracket in Col 16.
7. Mary Smith Servant 18 2 F. Single Co. Antrim, Whitebrook. English and Irish. General Domestic Servant Sheila O'Regan, Boardinghouse keeper - - —
(p) Area of Holding 270 St. Acres
State the particular Religion to which each person belongs. In the case of Protestant Denominations the vague term " Protestant " is not to be used.
FOURTH EXAMPLE.
THE STATISTICS (CENSUS OF POPULATION) ORDER, 1926, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SUB-SECTION (1) OF
SECTION 16
of THE
STATISTICS ACT, 1926
.
WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1) of
Section 16
of the
Statistics Act, 1926
, that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by Order do all or any of the following things, that is to say :—
(
a
) Prescribe the subject matter, nature, character and periodicity of the statistics to be collected under this Act, and the time at or the occasion on which the same are to be collected.
(
b
) Prescribe, subject to the provisions of this Section, the persons or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given for the purpose of any statistics collected under this Act.
(
c
) Make regulations for the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally, or any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act.
(
d
) Prescribe the schedules, forms, instructions and other documents to be used in the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally, or of any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act.
(
e
) Prescribe any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.
NOW I, Patrick McGilligan, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of
Section 16
of the
Statistics Act, 1926
, and all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby order