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We only went to the homes of people who did not mail in their census forms, which is probably close to 1/3 of the population. You were lucky to get only the short form. In 1980, when I worked for the Census Bureau, there were three forms of varying length. The longest form,which went to 1 of every ten households, took more than an hour to fill out. The information collected goes far beyond merely identifying the number of people living in a household.



I only get one sheet of paper. I usually don't have to do anything except sign it and mail it because all the information they have is still the same as it should be.

I don't understand how someone can be so offended by a census form. They probably assume it's big brother watching.

But they have to know how many people live in a city/town so to know how much aid and services to ask the state and federal government for whatever assistance they may need in the future. Am I right on that?