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http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/census-taker.php

What is a Census Taker?
Open the door to a census taker and open doors for your community.
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By being counted you are standing up for what your community’s needs are. That’s why census takers are so important. A census taker is a person from your community who is hired by the Census Bureau to make sure that your neighborhood gets represented as accurately as possible. The census taker’s primary responsibility is to collect census information from residences. Most of these residences have not sent back their 2010 Census form.

The Census Bureau provides the census taker with a binder containing all of the addresses that didn’t send back a filled out census form.

The census taker then visits all of those addresses and records the answers to the questions on the form.

If no one answers at a particular residence, a census taker will visit a home up to three times and attempt to reach the household by phone three times. The census worker will leave a double-sided (English and Spanish) NOTICE of VISIT in the doorway that includes a phone number for the resident to schedule an appointment.

The census taker will ONLY ask the questions that appear on the census form.

Do I have to talk to the census taker?
Yes. Your participation in the 2010 Census is vital and required by law, (Section 221, of Title 13 of the U.S. Code). However, rather than rely on criminal charges, the Census Bureau is very successful in getting participation by explaining the importance of the questions we ask and how the information benefits our communities.
Your privacy and confidentiality is our priority:

The census taker who collects your information is sworn for life to protect your data under Federal Law Title 13. Those who violate the oath face criminal penalties: Under federal law, the penalty for unlawful disclosure is a fine of up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to 5 years, or both.

The census person working my neighborhood (I'm a homeowner) has left three cards in my door.
She calls my home phone twice per day and my cellular phone twice per day for a total of FOUR attempted daily telephone contacts for the past SIX days.
That is a total of TWENTY-SEVEN harassing attempts to contact me.
Given this very bizarre behavior, I'm inclined to think she likely stalked ex-boyfriends, ex-employers, and ex-schoolmates.

"The census taker will ONLY ask the questions that appear on the census form. "

Therein lies the entire problem...

"questions"...

No matter how I try, "How many persons live here?" always adds up to just one question...The only one I, personally, have ever answered over many decades...

"Do I have to talk to the census taker?
Yes. Your participation in the 2010 Census is vital and required by law, (Section 221, of Title 13 of the U.S. Code).

Oh! Oh! Will I still get my Soc Sec while I'm in the big house?

"However, rather than rely on criminal charges, the Census Bureau is very successful in getting participation by explaining the importance of the questions we ask and how the information benefits our communities. "

Unless, when this strategy is attempted, you ask the census worker to wait while you spread a plastic sheet on the floor, put on a pair of hip boots, and wear a painting mask. No sense having all that unmitigated B.S. mess up the rugs...