“An accurate count of the U.S. Population forms the basis for many important often overlooked political, economic, and social decisions that are made that end up affecting our daily lives,” says Professor Le from the University of Massachusetts. Every 10 years the United States government, according to Constitutional mandate, sets out to count every human being in the country.
For many, many years, the population has been counted using two different questionnaires, one with just a few questions and the other very lengthy and time-consuming. In April, the count will once again occur but the big news is that everyone will have to answer only ten simple questions and that is all!
The benefits to the community for a complete count are many. Census information affects the number of seats Texas occupies in the U.S. House of Representatives. People from all walks of life use census data to advocate for causes, rescue disaster victims, prevent diseases, research markets, locate pools of skilled workers, and more.
The information the census collects helps to determine how more than $400 billion dollars of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services such as hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, bridges, tunnels and other public works projects, and emergency services.
Be sure of the facts by going to www.census.gov to check out information about the 2010 Complete Count.
CENSUS Update: From now till mid -August, the Census Bureau will call households who have responded to the 2010 Census if they need to clarify any answers about the number of people living at the address.
Basically, if any of the answers the household provided on the form they returned indicates some uncertainty about who should have been included as a household member, we will call to get a better understanding of the situation, and then use our census residence rules to resolve the uncertainties.
These calls are simply to clarify answers that have been given and to make sure we count everyone once, only once and in the right place.
Not every household will receive a call. The Census Bureau estimates that we may need to call about 8 million households over the four-month
The caller will identify themselves as working for the U.S. Census Bureau and that the purpose of their call is to help the Census Bureau take the most accurate census and to ensure we have counted everyone at the right address.
After confirming they have reached the correct household, the caller will provide the household an approval number from the Office of Management and Budget (0607-0946) and its expiration date (12/31/2010). This number allows us to conduct this survey and requires the household’s participation. The interview will take approximately 10 minutes and may be monitored and recorded to evaluate the interviewer’s performance.