Yes.
I don’t want to respond to this thread. I’m sure it’s being monitored.
I $h!t-canned it. No reason to answer their questions.
That reads like a question from one of those slanted polls.
The correct answer is: "It is possible that they are and it is possible that they are not."
It would be better to know the probability that they are or are not based on evidence or inference.
No, heven’t received it.
But I was blessed to receive the multi-page, draconian USDA “census” a while back, in an envelop with dire warnings about compliance, wanting to know how big my agricultural operation was - size of my fruit orchards, crops, livestock, dairy, aquaculture, number of farmhands - legal and illegal - total wages, sales, profit/loss, etc, pertaining to my 1.3 ACRE residential property.
“If FReepers have been targeted disproportionately with this survey, it would be a big deal.”
Yeah, but I don’t think there is any way you could determine that by just getting responses on a thread like this. How could you tell if they were targeting us disproportionately, instead of just targeting us proportionately? You’re missing too many variables in the equation.
Bottom line, it is just one more question to ask conservative candidates: “Are you in favor of returning the Bureau of the Census to just its constitutional mandate of an ‘actual enumeration’ and *nothing* more?”
That is, they are constitutionally authorized to record how many people there are. They should be prohibited from gathering any other data.
Bottom line, it is just one more question to ask conservative candidates: “Are you in favor of returning the Bureau of the Census to just its constitutional mandate of an ‘actual enumeration’ and *nothing* more?”
That is, they are constitutionally authorized to record how many people there are. They should be prohibited from gathering any other data.
I won’t even answer the decennial census as they want me to. I listed the number of people living in the house - that’s it. Got a call from a census goon, but told him to get off my property.
Never received the survey. If I do, I will treat it as I did the last two census forms.
For more information, see American Community Survey in Census website.
Do you have to respond to the ACS? Yes. Responding to the American Community Survey (ACS) is about helping national, tribal, state and local officials make informed decisions with timely and accurate data. Just as people are required to respond to jury duty, get a driver’s license in order to drive, pay their taxes and report their income, they also have the obligation to respond to decennial census surveys. The ACS is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 141 and 193, and response is required by law. According to Section 221, persons who do not respond shall be fined not more than $100. Title 18 U.S.C. Section 3571 and Section 3559, in effect amend Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221 by changing the fine for anyone over 18 years old who refuses or willfully neglects to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers from a fine of not more than $100 to not more than $5,000.
I never answer these census things. If they come around, I speak Russian to them.
Tell them you charge $50 per hour to fill out forms.
Hmmmm. I threw mine away unopened, and haven’t responded to any follow-up mailings. I thought it was just luck-o-the-draw, but now I wonder...
I did! I sent them a letter stating that I filled in the 10 year census. I said I was not going to fill it out. I got a letter from the census, a lady who was quite surly. She stated that I was required by law to fill it out, and that they would prosecute the issue if I didn’t. I trashed the letter along with the census. I’m waiting now about three years. Just ignore it!
I got the survey quite some time ago. I did not send it back. The law is that you have to answer the questions and send it back. The reality is that the Census Bureau wil not contest it because they do not want it to be adjudicated. Most folks send it back and going to court to force a noncomplier to comply would make it publicly known that there is no penalty and compliance would decline substantially.
Received it, have not returned it.
Back in 2010 I got the regular census form and filled it out, but inadvertently I misspelled my name. After 6 months or so I received another census to fill out because the first one had been “lost”. A few months later I started receiving advertizements (with the misspelled name) and telephone solicitations.
In 2011 I received the Community Census book to fill out. It got lost before I could fill it out. A few months later I got a phone call threatening me with loss of life and liberty if I did not complete the book over the telephone. Since I wanted to be exact, I had to have her hold while I looked up information because my life and liberty was at stake. The neighbor asked me to watch her squalling kids for a while. Then the dog had to go. The UPS guy needed a signature, etc. After two hours the lady had the audacity to hang up on me. She didn’t even correct the spelling of my name.