The materials in this series cover the extent of Hauser's career, and indicate the general scope and character of the rest of the collection. The series contains mostly correspondence with personal acquaintances, although the letters touch on Hauser's work, travel, attendance at conferences, research projects, books and book reviews. The correspondence includes both incoming letters and carbons of Hauser's replies.

This series documents Hauser's civil service career from 1934 to 1950, along with later activities on various advisory boards and panels. There are three subseries. The first, Federal Emergency Relief Administration/Works Progress Administration, deals mostly with the preparation of the two-volume Workers on Relief in the United States in March 1935. Hauser worked for the FERA, which was combined with the new WPA in 1935, from 1934 to 1937. Included in the papers are interoffice memos, weekly progress reports, and working drafts of the text and accompanying tables.

The second subseries, Bureau of the Census/Department of Commerce, contains correspondence and other materials relating to Hauser's work from 1937 to 1950. Of particular interest are statements that Hauser drafted for Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace concerning post-war employment and science legislation and reorganization of the Department of Commerce, and press releases and interviews used to publicize and explain the purpose of the 1950 census.

The third subseries covers Hauser's participation in conferences, advisory committees, and research for various government agencies from the mid-1940s to 1977. Hauser lectured and consulted concerning statistical standards and population growth, and the related problems of health, education and aging. Also included in this subseries are materials relating to the Atomic Energy Control Conference held in 1945, and the clash between Henry Wallace and Bernard M. Baruch, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, over U.S. proposals for the control of atomic energy.

Hauser's career at the University of Chicago is documented, somewhat sketchily, by the papers in this series. The first subseries contains general correspondence and memos arranged chronologically for the years 1930-1975. The second subseries comprises minutes, reports and financial records of the Social Science Research Committee for the years 1947-1951, during which Hauser served as secretary. The SSRC was responsible for allocating funds of the Division of Social Sciences for faculty research projects. Included are research proposals of individual professors for 1949-1951. The third subseries includes materials related to various committees and activities in which Hauser was engaged on campus, including the Chicago Community (16:12), the Population Research and Training Center, and projections of future student enrollment made for President Levi in 1971. The fourth subseries contains class notes and readings of Hauser, arranged by subject and course number. Included are some notes from classes Hauser took in high school and at YMCA College, although most of the materials in the subseries come from upper division and graduate sociology courses Hauser took at the University of Chicago under such professors as Ernest Burgess, Ellsworth Faris, and Robert Park. Also included are a few items from courses Hauser taught (both at University of Chicago and -YMCA College). At the end of the subseries are some papers written by Hauser's students, including autobiographies done as sociology class projects.

Hauser served as a consultant to various city departments and community organizations, as well as taking part personally in local political controversies. Materials in this series reflect his participation at various levels in discussions of urban problems. Examples of this are the folders on the Benjamin C. Willis controversy (Hauser was a member of the Advisory Panel on Integration in the Chicago Public Schools in 1964, and worked actively to support its recommendations against the opposition of Willis, the Superintendent of Schools), and the lawsuit brought by the South East Chicago Commission against a proposed housing development at 47th St. and Lake Park Ave. in the early 1970s, in which Hauser served as a witness for the SECC.

As an expert on statistics and populations, Hauser participated in various U.N. projects from the time of its organization until his retirement. The papers of this series concern Hauser's positions on the Population Commission and with the Technical Assistance Administration, as well as later activities in seminars and conferences such as the Meeting of Experts and of Representatives of United Nations and Specialized Agencies on International Definitions and Measurement of Standards of Living, held in June 1953.

The papers in this series document Philip Hauser's travel in South and Southeast Asia, his contacts with universities and governments there, and participation in population organizations and conferences. Although related to the United Nations projects in the preceding series, most of this work was done under the aegis of the Population Research and Training Center of the University of Chicago, which was largely funded by the Ford Foundation. The PRTC not only assisted in training foreign students who came to the University, but also made efforts to establish similar centers for population studies in universities of "developing" countries, particularly in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. As director of the PRTC, Hauser made regular trips to these and other countries to confer with officials, check on conditions, and help in setting up conferences and seminars on population problems and vital statistics registration. In this series, along with folders for the countries Hauser visited, are folders for organizations such as the Asia Foundation, the East-West Center, of which Hauser was a Senior Fellow in 1972-1973 and 1975-1976, and the Organization of Demographic Associates. Also included are reports of field trips to Asian countries made between 1963 and 1974.

The correspondence and related materials of this series are arranged alphabetically by name of organization, and concern Hauser's relations with professional associations, public and private foundations, and other types of institutions, some of which Hauser served as a member or officer, others which engaged him to give lectures or presentations at meetings and conferences, write articles, or do research. Hauser's visiting professorships at Indiana University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Washington are documented here. Most of the files in this series are of groups with which Hauser had dealings over a period of years; individual speeches or meetings are covered in Series VIII. Asian organizations are included in Series VI. Related materials can be found throughout the collection.

This series contains correspondence concerning arrangements for Hauser's speaking engagements, filed chronologically. Some of the correspondence relates to the publishing of articles. Abstracts, drafts and transcripts of speeches are located in Series X. Hauser spoke before many kinds of groups -- business, professional, academic, religious, political, and community. Many items concerning lectures and papers given by Hauser can be found in subject categories in other series. Folders for 1959-1962 contain lists of all talks given in those years.

Bodies of correspondence with publishing houses concerning either Hauser's publications or his services as an editorial consultant are included in this series. Of particular note are files for Encyclopaedia Britannica, which Hauser served as sociology advisor, and John Wiley & Sons, which published two editions of Government Statistics for Business Use by Hauser and William R. Leonard, and also retained Hauser as an editorial advisor for books on sociology.

Most of Hauser's writings have been gathered together in this series. There are two subseries, each arranged alphabetically by titles. The first subseries, Student Papers, includes essays and class papers Hauser wrote both at YMCA College and the University of Chicago, copies of The Y's Owl, a YMCA College magazine which Hauser edited in 1926-1927, and Hauser's master's thesis, "Motion Pictures in Penal and Correctional Institutions," completed in 1933.

The second subseries includes monographs, speeches, chapters of books, papers for conference, encyclopedia articles, introductions to books by other authors, reports of advisory committees on which Hauser served, testimony before legislative committees, and technical reports produced for the FERA/WPA and the Census Bureau. Subjects Hauser wrote about included government, business and academic uses for census data, implications of changes in population distribution, U.S. and world population growth and resulting problems, and the development of statistical methods and techniques for measuring populations. Most of the titles are represented by abstracts, notes and drafts (and transcripts for speeches), although there are offprints and published versions in some cases. Correspondence related to publication, presentation, and editing is included with some of the titles. Book reviews and obituaries are grouped together under separate headings. Some of Hauser's writings, especially committee reports which Hauser helped draft, will be found in subject folders.

Miscellaneous materials which document Hauser's life and activities in general have been grouped in this last series. Included are college transcripts and grade reports, job applications and resumés, bibliographies, biographical sketches for press releases, diplomas, newspaper clippings and magazine articles about Hauser, an address book, and photographs of Philip Hauser and his family. Sixteen photographs of Hauser were transferred to the Archival Photographic File, Series I. An autobiography Hauser wrote in 1925 is located in the Student Papers section of Series X.

The last box of the collection contains job applications Hauser received and letters of recommendation he wrote for assistants and students while he worked for the Works Progress Administration, the Bureau of the Census, and the University of Chicago. These files are restricted.

Student evaluative material, restricted for 80 years from the date of creation.