Column #	Information
1	Line number
2	Address
3	Dwelling number
4	Family number
5	Name (Last name, first name)
6	Relationship to head of household
7	Whether head of household owns home or rents home. O = own, followed by value of home. R = rent, followed by amount of monthly rent
8	Whether there is a radio in the household
9	Whether the household is a farm
10	Sex (M=male, F=female)
11	Race (W=white, B=black, I=Indian)
12	Age (on their last birthday prior to April 1, 1930)
13	Marital status (M=married, S=single, D=divorced, W=widowed)
14	Age when first married (Note: the individual's age at the time of their first marriage was recorded - not necessarily their age at the time of their marriage as listed in the census.)
15	Whether they attended school within the last year
16	Wether they can read and write
17	Birthplace of individual. For international locations, an effort was made to be specific. For Canada, (Eng.) and (French) were added to distinguish English-speaking Canada from French Canada. For Ireland, it was noted as "Irish Free State" (Republic of Ireland) and "North Ireland" (for Northern Ireland).
18	Father's birthplace
19	Mother's birthplace
20	If foreign-born, native language spoken
21	Year of immigration, and whether naturalized (Na.), in the process of becoming naturalized (Pa.), or alien (Al.) (I've noticed in some cases that the year of naturalization was sometimes recorded instead of the year of immigration).
22	Occupation
23	Industry
24	Whether a veteran of the US Military, and in which war (SA = Spanish-American; WW = World War I)
25	Comments and Annotations - this column is available to anyone who has additional information or corrections to make to the census information. Also, comments made by census-taker are also recorded here.

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