2010 Census....Penalties for not participating?

[Sawdust]

Hmmm...I guess I had better get around to filling it out before they come knocking...

Sawdust

[J.J.]

Still not sure what to do. I have yet to recieve a form...My neighborhood isn't on most maps yet (it is so the street names are not even on any satellite maps or google or etc)

[J.J.]

Thread is now back on topic.  IF the thread drift can be civil it can be RESTARTED IN POLITICS!

[Balog]

Still not sure what to do. I have yet to recieve a form...My neighborhood isn't on most maps yet (it is so the street names are not even on any satellite maps or google or etc)

Brand new housing development? I've often wondered how Google maps finds out about new neighborhoods and how long it takes them to get a team out there.

[PTK]

Brand new housing development? I've often wondered how Google maps finds out about new neighborhoods and how long it takes them to get a team out there.

House I live in has been here for less than 4 years, street has been here less than 5 years. So, less than 5 years, it seems.

[J.J.]

Yeah my lemon House was one of the first 6 built in this subdivision that is steadily growing...Heck they are putting up new houses in record time. 2 months start to finish for the last one the built.

I know it took about 3 years in my previous house for Google to show up.

[sanglant]

this seems to be where google gets its maps tomtom to, you can suggest updates. if your sure you want to.

  http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html

[Tallpine]

Last time I checked, the google satellite picture of our place is five years old. (2005)

So no - you can't watch me peeing out in the yard! 

[PTK]

Last time I checked, the google satellite picture of our place is five years old. (2005)

So no - you can't watch me peeing out in the yard! 

Well, we could, but not via Google. 

[vaskidmark]

Just heard that this weekend the Enumerators were headed for the "difficult to count" neighborhoods in Richmond, Va.

Will have to check the Sunday paper to see what the body count is.

stay safe.

skidmark

[Tallpine]

Well, we could, but not via Google. 

Okay, I'm drinking coffee now.  Watch out in a few minutes 

[seeker_two]

Okay, I'm drinking coffee now.  Watch out in a few minutes 

Be careful you don't spill that...or at least put some pants on first.... 

[Tallpine]

Be careful you don't spill that...or at least put some pants on first.... 

That's the way to run off the census taker 

[vaskidmark]

Just heard that this weekend the Enumerators were headed for the "difficult to count" neighborhoods in Richmond, Va.

Will have to check the Sunday paper to see what the body count is.

stay safe.

skidmark

OK, I had that a bit wrong.  The Enumerators don't start their roundups until the 16th. 

Residents are asked to mail back census forms by April 16. Those who don't will get a visit from a census worker.

This was the "Let's make sure the numbers are in our favor 'cause there's money tied to them figures" folks trying to get more forms filled out.  http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/CENS11_20100410-221611/336429/

At locations across the city, volunteers knocked on doors, stopped people on the street, set up information tables and even rode in motorcycle brigades with the goal of increasing the area's census form completion rate. It was part of a national "March to the Mailbox" campaign during which the census tracts with the lowest response rates in each jurisdiction were targeted for extra outreach

"We cannot emphasize too much the importance of the census for the city of Richmond and what it means in terms of pulling down federal dollars, for categorizing our city as a small city versus a medium-sized city. We have to be over 200,000. We have to do better this time than we did the last time so those dollars can flow to our community."

"They move from place to place a lot, too. They may be staying with a friend or relative, and they figure they may be counted somewhere else. Or they don't want to be counted." Casasnovas said staff at the city's Hispanic Liaison Office in Southside Plaza shopping center are helping residents fill out forms.

About the only good thing I read was this:

One woman asked to see some official identification, and after [Councilwoman] Newbille showed hers, she took a census form and completed it.

  All was good up until the last 8 words.

OK, it's not world-stops-spinning-ly bad stuff happening, but it still gets my goat that the basic purpose of the enumeration is seen by politicians as the means to collecting someone else's money to spend on useless projects.

Now I'm really hoping that the green ink I used to write "1" on the form before sealing the envelope and mailing it back somehow creates an extra-big glitch in the smooth functioning of the automated works.  Just cause I'm feeling mean.

stay safe.

skidmark

[sanglant]

green ink? was it Noodler's Zhivago. on second thought they probably couldn't tell it wasn't black.

[Fly320s]

Are The Enumerators authorized, encouraged, or allowed to document a person's race if that person won't respond to that question on the census form?

For example, since I wrote in American as my race, if The Enumerator comes to my house and sees that I am european-American, can/will the worker document me as such without my permission?

[sanglant]

it would surprise me if not. and i wouldn't put sending them to everyone's house that said they were American past them.

[Jamisjockey]

That's the way to run off the census taker 

Works on JW's.  They've seen me nekkid....

[Perd Hapley]

Works on JW's.  They've seen me nekkid....

And they still believe in a loving God? 

[Jamisjockey]

And they still believe in a loving God? 

Heckifiknow....I all know is that when it happened, they certainly believed in giving my property a wide berth after that...

[Tallpine]

And they still believe in a loving God? 

Did they ever...?   

[Grandpa Shooter]

The questionnaire they left on the door of our remote retreat disappeared somewhere and Lady Shooter answered 2 questions on the one they left at the cabin.  We received nothing they can prove we ever got.  Highly inefficient enumeration at best.  I suspect it was much more costly than what the results could ever justify.

[seeker_two]

Works on JW's.  They've seen me nekkid....

The Mrs. cut you off again, didn't she?....... 

[Jamisjockey]

The Mrs. cut you off again, didn't she?....... 

Actually they interrupted a good shower once....wouldn't stop ringing the doorbell, dogs were going ape-poo-poo....I was pretty irritated and swung the door open to cuss them out.  Forgot I was nekkid....

[PTK]

I cheerfully answered the door a few days ago for a JW. It's not my fault they rang while I was in the living room cleaning my grenade launcher. I simply carried it with me while answering the door, as is my habit (why leave something like that out of my control while answering a door?!)

The look was priceless. The stammered "God loves you" was even more priceless. Shortest JW visit I've ever had.