Hi Maisie You would be surprised what you can find with a bit of googleing <g> The income question was a valid on for 1970 See <https://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1970.shtml> I would suggest that it was a rather pointless question to ask as many people would have distrusted the motives for it being asked and gave a made up answer, I doubt they learned much by asking it The statisticians have various formulae to extrapolate results, knowing that some false information was likely, but I suspect this one even foxed them I would imagine all they learned was that some people earned money but as to how much? thats another question entirely At present it is still up in the air as to whether we have another census in England/Wales at least, they say they can find the information required for the census from other sources, as they do not seem to have a clue who is in the Country they may have a point Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 13/10/2013 20:10, Maisie Egger wrote: > Nivard, > > A tiny bit more on census enumerations: > > Forty or so years ago when we lived north of where we now live in > California, the census enumerator INSISTED I had to tell her what my > husband's income was as it was the LAW. I had balked at divulging this > information as I thought it was even more an invasion of privacy. I > have never seen anyone's income listed on a census before, but maybe > such is "required" in more recent censuses. I should go on Google to > have a look at the census forms for California for the last few decades. > > I wish I could get a copy of this California census for around 1970 to > see if incomes were recorded. > > The last time there was a census here we filled in a form and mailed it. > There was no visit by a human enumerator, in other words. > > With the immigration laws now on the hopper for review and change, one > wonders what the next census forms will include. > > > > Maisie