I am now a fully qualified census worker and I've been seeing some questions floating around about the census and I thought I would clear it up here
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Got it, filled it out, I would have mailed it today had it not been for forgetting it at home...will mail it in tomorrow no fail no flail. Surprised that it was so unobtrusive. Was expecting to need to report things like income and whatnot, but that wasn't on the form thankfully.
Oh, and your friendslist mixes two distinct populations of my friends. That always confuses me. Please compartmentalize your relationships in a way that accords with my mental picture of the universe.
I filled out mine, but here's something from a FOAF on Facebook:
You don't HAVE to put name/race/etc. You HAVE to put the number of people in your household, as authorized by the Constitution. Nothing else is part of the census as authorized by the Constitution. And the privacy information really isn't true - the govt has released census data multiple times just in the last decade under the Patriot Act. That's not to mention the multiple university data centers (Stanford's is the most recent I believe, as well as Duke and a slew of others) - they are granted access to all census data. I totally get wanting to include more info if you're interested in geneology - what I object to is the government's strong-armed posturing that this form is REQUIRED BY LAW. It isn't. And I don't appreciate the deception. I might have filled it out if they marked all questions other than # of persons in household as VOLUNTARY - heck, they have all that information other places anyway - but I sure as hell won't do it when they lie and say it's required
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You might also tell her to get the fava beans and chianti ready now. Because filling it out like that will make it so that an enumerator will call upon them come April/May.
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Oh, and your friendslist mixes two distinct populations of my friends. That always confuses me. Please compartmentalize your relationships in a way that accords with my mental picture of the universe.
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You don't HAVE to put name/race/etc. You HAVE to put the number of people in your household, as authorized by the Constitution. Nothing else is part of the census as authorized by the Constitution. And the privacy information really isn't true - the govt has released census data multiple times just in the last decade under the Patriot Act. That's not to mention the multiple university data centers (Stanford's is the most recent I believe, as well as Duke and a slew of others) - they are granted access to all census data. I totally get wanting to include more info if you're interested in geneology - what I object to is the government's strong-armed posturing that this form is REQUIRED BY LAW. It isn't. And I don't appreciate the deception. I might have filled it out if they marked all questions other than # of persons in household as VOLUNTARY - heck, they have all that information other places anyway - but I sure as hell won't do it when they lie and say it's required ( ... )
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