@Robert: He's actually correct that the ones he listed are not a given. The amount of funding a state has is dependent upon the number of people in an area. The Census leads to increased district areas, which can lead to more police stations, fire departments, schools, and similar services. It's people who don't properly answer the census that also complain about why the closest fire department is so far away that they can't get to their area in time to save lives or why it takes forever for an ambulance to arrive. Because people expect them to be mind readers and 'figure out' how many people need to be served in an area? No, they need to be informed on the needs through a census.   See 14 other replies

There must have been some kind of error, maybe it got lost or something. I know that I turned mine in and everyone that I know of who turned in their forms did not have the same problem as you. Who knows though. I completely agree with Nathan Jones. If you turn your form, then they wouldn't have to come to your house and ask you questions.   See 14 other replies

Well, the part about filling out the form being enough to keep census takers from showing up didn't hold true for myself. I filled out the form correctly and in its entirety, but a couple weeks later, some dude appeared outside my apartment saying he's a census taker (had an I.D. and all...) and asked a few questions: "did you turn in your form?", "what's your name?" and "what's your address?"...well, having someone walk around just to double-check seemed like a waste of money to me, but whatever.   See 14 other replies

That's because after you answer the questions, the census taker has to finish filling out the form (they have to date and sign it and put their employee ID, then there is another form that has to be filled out, basically which address it was and if it was vacant or not, and then of course find out where they have to go next. ) if you people just turn in the forms when you get them in the mail, no one will show up at your house. The census has been done since the late 1700's every country for the most part does it, so stop complaining. It doesn't even become public until after you're pretty much dead anyway. Get over it people, it's not a government conspiracy.   See 14 other replies

wow, did they really want to know if u were even a tiny bit black.   See 14 other replies

I had a census guy come to my parent's house while I was visiting. I told him they were gone and I didn't live there but he asked me a bunch of questions anyway. I didn't know the answer to half of them. and he was kind of a jerk.Then after he finally let me go back inside he spent like a half hour sitting in my driveway doing god knows what.   See 14 other replies

I was one of those annoying guys who came to your doors =]   See 14 other replies