At any rate, it was Mrs. catnipman who answered the door and the "lister" asked if she had our address correct, and Mrs. catnipman said yes, and then the "lister" asked if anyone was living here illegally in our basement (we don't have one) or "out back" (nothing back there but a barn we use as an equipment shed, but maybe they saw the barn on a satellite image). At any rate, Mrs. catnipman said no and shut the door, refusing to answer any more questions.
BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states, though the rest of the data they want I personally could care less about ...
I used to work on this project for the Census Bureau back in the day.
There is no “pattern” as to what is verified and what is not—any neighborhood or country road could have a new mother in law apartment, trailer etc added...regardless of local laws, ordinances, or covenants.
Does the writer want us to look for census 'listers', or for addresses?
More proof that English is not a prerequisite for journalism school.
Maybe it’s just me and how skeptical I am these days...but I’m kinda thinking you had a fake-lister. I might be vigilant and watchful the next night or two.
Anecdotal info for anyone who is interested:
My neighbor was hired to work for the Census. She said that out of 15 people who were in her group, only 5 made it through drug and background checks. She also said she didn’t know how some of the people who were hired were going to be able to do the job, as they weighed over 300 pounds and could barely walk.
They are paid $19 an hour.
Have some fun, turn the hose on them.
“BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states, though the rest of the data they want I personally could care less about ... “
Past the locked gate. The signs that read:
“NO SOLICITATION OF ANY KIND”, “DO NOT ENTER”, “NO TRESPASSING”, “NO ENTRY WITHOUT A WARRANT, this includes YOU!” signs
Past the closer sign that reads in 4 languages:
“DON”T COME CLOSER OR I WILL SHOOT”.
With a final sign that reads:
“DON’T YOU DARE KNOCK ON THE DOOR UNLESS I INVITED YOU”.
and then they will ring the bell?
Don’t think I have much to worry about.
“BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states”
ONLY if you live in a red state.
If you live in a blue state you might want to consider avoiding these people.
This is a dangerous job. Not only because of illegals who don’t want to be listed, and the paranoid mentally ill, but the presence of vicious attack animals. In the last census in far West Texas, a woman lister was attacked as she walked up the steps to a mobile home…by the family’s guard javelina. She died of her injuries.
these are just made up jobs from the government. Like most of them.
I had a lister come to my door a few days ago. She was a pleasant middle age woman.
She handed me a census confidentiality notice.
One very nice man on my street owns two houses. He rents out space to his family members, and some people claim, he rents to unrelated renters as well. I wonder what she was told down the street.
Will they also verify the addresses of one two three poop sidewalk in San Francisco or will they just label those 10th number one cardboard box number two and wide-open sidewalk with a poop pile number 3?
I never did see the “lister” for 2000, but got a chance to talk to the “checker”. He was up at the end of the cul de sac looking for a house # on the garage there. The old farm house there faces the next street. The guy that bought that house used to park just to the west and enter that street, had no garage. Not too long he got a surprise and someone built a house where he used to park his car. He had no entry to a street anymore. He ended up building a garage behind (the cul de sac side) and putting in a long driveway to the cul de sac.
The “lister” had identified that as a residence and must have given it an “address”. The “checker” could not find that address. My conclusion was that the “checker” got a bonus for finding new addresses.
Hope they have a 4-wheel drive if they want to verify my address.
I worked for the census once. We asked lots of questions, and personal questions on the long form.
I’d been working for a while, when my manager said we only needed about 1/10th of the question answered on the long form.
Districts are sized based on population. Not adult population. And not just citizens
They actually asked that?
Very surprised, and encouraged.
Not saying that's the end all be all, but it's a great sign that perhaps...we might start to get a handle on just how many foreign nationals who are illegally in our country.
Yale, MIT study: 22 million, not 11 million, undocumented immigrants in US [1]
And 22,000,000 undoubtedly, is under estimated.
When the census asks about my race, I’m going to check the “other” box and write in “American citizen.”
Anyone else with me?
During the 2010 census had a woman come up my driveway saying she was from the Census and wanted to ask some questions. I asked her for a photo ID but she had none. Apparently, the Census Bureau decided to save money and not issue their Census Takers with a photo ID. Since I had no way to verify who she was I told her to leave. Same thing will happen this year.
