{"id":2977,"date":"2016-07-11T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2016-07-11T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:07:04","slug":"educational-levels-from-the-1940-us-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Educational Levels from the 1940 US Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highest grade of school completed is one of those bits of data that I transcribe with a family&#8217;s 1940 census entry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also one of those bits of data that I fail to analyze in the context of the family of origin for adult members of the household. A relative asked at a recent reunion about the educational levels of the children of one of my 1860-era immigrant ancestors. Most of their children were living in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it would be insightful for me to look at how much education each child claimed to have in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>All the pitfalls about census records being incorrect are applicable here, but it still is worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest grade of school completed is one of those bits of data that I transcribe with a family&#8217;s 1940 census entry. It&#8217;s also one of those bits of data that I fail to analyze in the context of the family of origin for adult members of the household. A relative asked at a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}