Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What Social Workers Should Know About Their Own Communities: An Outline
A plea may also be made for the more thoroughgoing use by social workers of the invaluable material contained in the United States Census. Even for smaller cities facts in regard to the number, age, nationality, literacy and occupations of the population are easily found in the volumes on Population and Occupations. All such facts should be secured at the beginning of this study and referred to frequently as it proceeds. For example, school attendance figures, the number of juvenile delinquents, and the number of children using parks and other recreation centers should be compared with the number of children under fourteen. The number of foreign-born illiterates may be an argument for evening classes in English. The annual report on mortality gives birth and death rates; the annual summary of statistics about cities of over gives the state and local systems of taxation, expenditures of the various city depart ments, the amount of the city debt, area of parks and playgrounds, etc. There is as yet no statement published of the special data which the 1910 Census will provide, but the Bureau has planned to make it of special value to social workers. It is therefore important to watch the bulletins as they come out and gather from them all the information they can give you about your own community.
Many of these facts may be secured by correspondence or by personal inquiry of officials. Before calling on an official, however, do not fail to have secured and digested his printed report. Your questions will be more to the point and his willingness to answer them far greater if you have taken the trouble to acquire some knowledge in advance.
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