Codes and Frequencies
| Code | Label |
1940
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| 1 | Federal or State prisons or reformatories, including convict camps, penal farms, training schools and other institutions for juvenile delinquents, and all other penal institutions under Federal or State control. | 1,973 |
| 2 | Local jails and workhouses, including all penal establishments not under Federal or State control. | 884 |
| 3 | Mental institutions, including homes and hospitals for the mentally diseased, the feeble-minded, and epileptics. | 5,679 |
| 4 | Homes for the aged, infirmed, or needy, including almshouses and homes for the blind, the deaf, incurables, orphans, and disabled or aged soldiers and sailors. | 2,543 |
| 5 | "Other and not reported," including institutions that combine the usual functions of two or more of the foregoing types with no clear majority of inmates classifiable under one of the first four categories. This type also includes a small group of institutions of these general classes for which the information reported was not sufficient to determine the specific type. | 1,752 |
| 9 | Inap. (not institutional inmate) | 1,338,901 |
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State ________, Incorporated place ________. Ward of city _________; Unincorporated place [Name of unincorporated place having 100 or more inhabitants] _______________________. Enumeration District NO.___________. Supervisor?s District NO.__________. County _______________. Township or other division of county ________________________. Block Nos. ___________; Institution [Name of institution and lines on which entries are made] _________________________________.
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427. Institutional Households.-The officials, employees, and inmates of an institution who live in the institution building or buildings make up one household. But if any officer or employee and his family, if any, live in separate quarters (a detached house or structure containing no inmates), they should be returned as a separate household. Note the instructions to identify institutions (par. 410).
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