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During the n eenth century, occupational information about women that was provided by the United States 1. The primary purpose of the passage is to census--a population count conducted each decade--became more detailed and precise in response to social changes. ▪ (A) ex in and critique the methods Through 1840, simple enumeration by household mirrored a used by early statisticians home-based agricultural economy and hierarchical social order: the head of the household (presumed male or absent) ▪ (B) compare and contrast a historical was specified by name, whereas other household members situation with a current-day one were only indicated by the total number of s counted in various categories, luding occupational categories. Like ▪ (C) describe and ex in a historical farms, most enterprises were family-run, so that the census measured economic activity as an attribute of the entire change household, rather than of individuals. The 1850 census, partly responding to lavery and ▪ (D) discuss historical opposition to an womens rights movements, initiated the collection of specific established institution information about each individual in a household. Not until 1870 was occupational information yzed by gender: the ▪ (E) trace the origin of a contemporary census superintendent reported 1.8 million women employed outside the home in gainful and reputable occupations. In controversy addition, he arbitrarily attributed to each family one woman kee house. Overlap between the two groups was not calculated until 1890, when the rapid entry of women into the paid labor and social issues arising from industrialization were causing womens advocates and women statisticians to press for more thorough and accurate a