“Also read the extensive readers’ testamonials at the bottom to learn the Census agents’ creepy modus operandi and how other citizens have resisted.”
The census workers are just ordinary people, temps, probably hired at your local employment office. They’re not sufficiently well-organized to have a modus operandi.
And most are just trying to feed their families. Of course if they laid back and too food stamps and welfare, they’d be blasted here too.
That was true when the Census occurred every 10 years. Now, with the ACS, it is an on-going process each and every year, requiring permanent trained Field Agents.
I worked the 2000 census and I can tell you that the "enumerators" (Ie field workers) are temps hired at minimum wage, with "preference given" to disabled, women, minorities, and veterans. At the time, all hiring was done by the census itself, which at the time was headed by the Commerce Department (Rahm Emanuel wanted it switched to the White House budget but that all came later) I applied in January and was given a screening test along with about 20 other applicants. The test covered some simple map reading and "grocery store arithmetic", we were given an hour to complete it. I finished in 15 minutes then went back and checked my answers which were correct the first time. Most of the applicants took the full hour. I'd guage the test difficulty as low junior high school.
I didn't get called back until the end of March, I had my doubts that I would be called at all since I fit none of the prerequisites for employment. I was offered a "clerk" position on second shift and took it for grins and giggles.
I had three days of training given by the people who had been hired three days before me, and they were trained by the people that were hired three days before...you get the picture.
The supervisors all the way up to the district managers were also temps but were paid a salary (honorary Civil Service??) in the high five digits and from what I saw were selected as beneficiaries of political patronage.
I spent three months there and came away with the painful realization that the census was a circus run by idiots and staffed by cretins with no idea how to use the technology dumped in front of them sans training.
Regards,
GtG