LEGAL I've Forgotten, Someone Help Me Out RE:Census

What exactly is required on the census form? We got ours yesterday, and I haven't even opened it yet.

gender, age, and # of people in the household. period.

# of people in the household. period.

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To determine the population for proper representation in the House.

It's probably not actually THE form, but a notice that you will be receiving one next week.

Looks like every 10 years we have 20 to 30 million more people. And those are just the counted ones.

The data in the following table was provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Year Population Increase Percent
2000 281,421,906 32,712,033 13.2
1990 248,709,873 22,167,674 9.8
1980 226,542,199 23,240,168 11.4
1970 203,302,031 23,978,856 13.4
1960 179,323,175 27,997,377 18.5
1950 151,325,798 19,161,229 14.5
1940 132,164,569 8,961,945 7.3
1930 123,202,624 17,181,087 16.2
1920 106,021,537 13,793,041 15.0
1910 92,228,496 16,016,328 21.0
1900 76,212,168 13,232,402 21.0
1890 62,979,766 12,790,557 25.5
1880 50,189,209 11,630,838 30.2
1870 38,558,371 7,115,050 22.6
1860 31,443,321 8,251,445 35.6
1850 23,191,876 6,128,523 35.9
1840 17,063,353 4,202,651 32.7
1830 12,860,702 3,222,249 33.4
1820 9,638,453 2,298,572 33.1
1810 7,239,881 1,931,398 36.4
1800 5,308,483 1,379,269 35.1
1790 3,929,214 - -


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The one we got was : names, birthdate, phone number, which I thought was weird.
Not as invasive as I feared.

Ok, for those that have a hard time with civil disobedience.

The Constitution tells us that NUMBER OF PEOPLE AT HOUSEHOLD is it.

Period. Phone number? Why give them that, so they can bug you by phone as well?

They want your phone number in case they 'don't understand' something you put on the form.

Number of people in house hold. That shouldn't need a phone number.

timbo said:

Ok, for those that have a hard time with civil disobedience.

The Constitution tells us that NUMBER OF PEOPLE AT HOUSEHOLD is it.

Period. Phone number? Why give them that, so they can bug you by phone as well?

They want your phone number in case they 'don't understand' something you put on the form.

Number of people in house hold. That shouldn't need a phone number.

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Timbo,

Just got my 2010 Census today.

Question #1 is about the number of people in the household. I find it interesting that it has a BOX around it...and it's the ONLY question with a box around it. Hmmmmmm....

That's all they're getting from me.

Took me 15 seconds to complete.

I'm spent...



LittleJohn

MDINMT said:

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_cens.html

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Thanks MDINMT! Its a shame that my mailbox fell in the ditch over the weekend. Damn kids and their pranks. There just is no secure way for the postal service to do their jobs.

BigBadBossyDog said:

I'm only filling in the number of persons in my household: 1.

My age, gender, race, phone number, etc, is none of their business. Why isn't the ACLU suing them for profiling?

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The same reason they're not suing the anti 2nd Amendment crowd. They're in on the scam.

Since the Social Security Administration/IRS has almost all that information anyway-I don't understand why they just don't send the Census bureau a print out??

A quick FYI for any mixed race White/Native Americans reading this, there is a certain way to mark your race If you want your principal tribe to be helped even if you are not enrolled. Go to this link to find out Exactly how to fill that portion of the census out. V http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/community/census_2010.html

vessie said:

A quick FYI for any mixed race White/Native Americans reading this, there is a certain way to mark your race If you want your principal tribe to be helped even if you are not enrolled. Go to this link to find out Exactly how to fill that portion of the census out. V http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/community/census_2010.html

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Thanks for the link. I wouldn't have given enough information, but now I know to go look at the registration paperwork for specific tribe.

timbo said:

Ok, for those that have a hard time with civil disobedience.

The Constitution tells us that NUMBER OF PEOPLE AT HOUSEHOLD is it.

Period. Phone number? Why give them that, so they can bug you by phone as well?

They want your phone number in case they 'don't understand' something you put on the form.

Number of people in house hold. That shouldn't need a phone number.

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A-friggin-MEN. However, we are talking about government employees here.

got mine yesterday and completed it.

Surprised how simple and non-intrusive it was.

I have no objections with it or what info it collected.