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Miss Demeanors

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I just read an article that said "67% of households completed and returned their census forms". How do they know that it is 67%? :D Obviously they know about the other 33%? :rolleyes: Just curious if this is an estimate or do they really know how many people there are. (things that make you go hmm)

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They just know how many they mailed.

Seems like about 1/3 of us don't trust Uncle Sugar with ANY info on our personal lives.

Interesting.
 
BTW, on Monday (July 3rd) while we were out taking my bike to the shop for repairs, we got a note card that a census worker had stopped by. Evidently they are not happy with the fact that I only answered the first question, and mailed the thing in with the other 27 pages BLANK.

I'm sorry I missed the guy. Though I know he's just a temp worker, and a 'regular' person, I'd have loved the chance to "just say no".


[This message has been edited by Dennis Olson (edited July 05, 2000).]
 
Dennis

When they finally get hold of you, I'll bet dollars to donuts they say, "Well, there must be a mistake, because we haven't received your form..."

I did the same as you, and that's what they told me, and about five or six other folks I've talked to.

Mine was politely thanked for his courtesy told to go be helpful somewhere else.
 
The other day i received a phone call from a census taker asking why i hadden't replied to any of their previous attempts to enumerate me.

I told them (which is the truth) that the house i am currently at is not my permanent address and as such i marked down '0' on the form.

I had to explain this to her 3 times before she would believe me (or simply write it down while still dis-believing me...)

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I resolve not to fill out any background info about myself next time such as ethnicity or income.

A section 8 housing project is going up 2 miles from where I live and I firmly believe that it is part of a government commitment to diversify my neighborhood based on what was perceived as a lack of ethnic and economic diversity derived from census info.

I resent the idea that the government thinks the detritus associated with the Projects will somehow be mitigated by pushing these into suburbia.
 
I put my race down as "human." That's all they need to know about me, thanks. And don't tell me about my great-great-great-grandkids needing to know my ethnicity 200 years from now. They won't know I was a caucasian? This way they'll know that AND that I was a little weird...
 
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