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| style="text-align:left;"| Poiché si credeva che la regione di frontiera degli Stati Uniti non esisteva più, il monitoraggio della migrazione verso ovest non è stato tabulato nel censimento del 1890<ref>{{cita libro|autore=Robert Porter|autore2=Henry Gannett|autore3=William Hunt|titolo="Progress of the Nation", in "Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, Part 1"|pp=18-34|editore=Bureau of the Census|anno=1895|lingua=inglese}}</ref>. Questa tendenza ha spinto [[Frederick Jackson Turner]] a sviluppare la [[Tesi della frontiera]].<br>
Il censimento del 1890 è stato il primo ad essere compilato con le nuove [[Herman Hollerith#La macchina tabulatrice|macchine tabulatrici]] inventate da [[Herman Hollerith]]. TheL'effetto netnetto effectdei ofmolti thecambiamenti manydel changescensimento from thedel 1880 census (thela largerpopolazione populationpiù grande, theil numbernumero ofdi datadati itemsda toraccogliere, bel'organico collected,del the CensusUfficio Bureaudel headcountcensimento, theil volume ofdi scheduledpubblicazioni publications,in andprogramma thee usel'uso ofdelle Hollerith'stabulazioni electromechanicalelettromeccanici tabulatorsdi Hollerith) wasè tostato reducequello thedi timeridurre requiredil totempo fullynecessario processper theelaborare censuspienamente fromil eightcensimento yearsda forotto theanni [[U.S.per Census,il censimento del 1880|1880 census]]a tosei sixanni yearsper foril thecensimento del 1890 census.<ref name="11th census report">{{cite bookcita libro|titletitolo=Report of the Commissioner of Labor In Charge of The Eleventh Census to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1895 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435067619882 |___locationeditore=Washington, DC ||publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office]] |datedata=July29 29,luglio 1895 |accessdateaccesso=November 13, 2015 |oclc=867910652}} Page |lingua=inglese|p=9: |citazione="You may confidently look for the rapid reduction of the force of this office after the 1st of October, and the entire cessation of clerical work during the present calendar year. ... The condition of the work of the Census Division and the condition of the final reports show clearly that the work of the Eleventh Census will be completed at least two years earlier than was the work of the Tenth Census." — Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor in Charge}}</ref>. The total population, of 62,947,714, was announced after only six weeks of processing (punched cards were not used for this family, or ''rough'', count).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1991-02.pdf |format=PDF|title=Population and Area (Historical Censuses) |publisher=United States Census Bureau|deadurl= no}}</ref><ref>Truesdell, Leon E. (1965) The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1940, US GPO, p.61</ref> The public reaction to this tabulation was disbelief, as it was widely believed that the "right answer" was at least 75,000,000.<ref>Austrian, Geoffrey D. (1982) ''Herman Hollerith - Forgotten Giant of Information Processing'', Columbia, pp.85-86</ref>
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This census is also notable for the fact it is one of only three for which the original data is no longer available. Almost all the population schedules were destroyed following a fire in 1921.
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