My wife has worked on the census and most of the workers don’t like many of the intrusive questions. The irony is..we sent our form in with only one blank filled in..2 residents. No names etc. Since the form was sent in there will be no follow up..how do I know. My wife has done the follow up in our neighborhood, and only people who did not return the forms are being contacted. So if you gave the minimum constitutional info..number only..no hastle.
“and only people who did not return the forms are being contacted.”
I wish that were true in my neighborhood. I sent mine back filled out in full and the will. not. leave. me. alone.
I did the same. No follow-up.
I gave the minimum required info on the short form; got the long form mailed to me along with that little post card reminding me that the census is the law....I tossed the long form because I had already mailed in the short form. Then I got a visit from a census worker. I was very nice to her and told her I had mailed the form in and gave her the same information. I only gave the number in our household and listed all 3 of us as “American.” I was actually wondering if they sent her out because of my lack of answers; however, maybe the short form never made it. I don’t know.
I did likewise. I provided the number, ages and genders of residents, and termed them all "Americans". That was the end of it. One of my friends who works on the census told me that 3 answers are considered "responsive" and no further follow up will take place. I can live with that. I've never given them more on previous census drives, and never had a follow up visit.
“Since the form was sent in there will be no follow up.”
I am throwing out the BS flag on this one!
I filled out my form, the basic question, and returned it. I got a second form and did the same thing. Then I had a census worker show up at my door, so don’t throw this BS around here!!
More importantly, you and Wolfstar, etc.. need to understand that he was not jeering the “hard working” census workers, he was knocking the most excellent hiring practices of the census group! In case you have not heard, they have and are hiring KNOWN criminals to go into people’s houses!
I work for an electrical company, we send electricians into people’s houses, can you imagine the amount of work we would loose if we were sending convicted felons into people’s houses?!?! Our insurance rates would skyrocket and our reputation would be CRAP; however, this would not be a knock on our innocent. non-convict electricians, but they certainly would feel the heat too!