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Every household in the United States should have received a questionnaire from the U.S. Census Bureau asking the number, ages, genders, names, races and relationships of people living under the same roof.
The 10-question form takes less than 10 minutes to complete and comes with a postage-paid return envelop.
The Census Bureau is encouraging everyone who hasn’t yet returned the form to do so today as part of its National Census Day blitz.
Those who don’t return the forms will receive a personal visit from a census worker within the next few weeks.
“Fill it out and send it back,” said U.S. Census Bureau Media Specialist Kat Smith, “and no one will knock on your door.”
Information provided in the census count helps determine how some $400 billion of federal dollars will be distributed. It funds schools, special programs, state agencies and a host of other functions.
Personal information provided in the forms is confidential and not shared with any other agency.
Contact Emily Le Coz at (662) 678-1588 or emily.lecoz@djournal.com.
Have you done that with every census form you recieved or it it just this particular census you're so incensed about? I filled mine out, it asked who was in the house, what race they were and whether I rented or owned my home. That's it. On the other hand, the census form I recieved 10 years ago was a multi-page booklet that asked everything from whether I'd had a child in the last 12 months to how much we made a year to how many cars we owned. I filled it out, nothing bad happened, nothing bad will happen to you, get over it.
Number of people in household? 3.
Race? I marked through everything and wrote AMERICAN.
Every other question? NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
They are granted permission to find the NUMBER of people in each household. Where the hell do they get off asking all this other stuff that they have no right to know?