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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Home is where the heart is
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Default Did you send in your census form yet?

I'm very curious what this year's census is going to reveal about the Northern Virginia area. I wonder if there'll be a few surprises?
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:14 PM
 
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No, I threw it in the trash.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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I sent mine back the day after I got it. I'm a (very amateur) genealogist, and I think census records are cool. I was very disappointed that I didn't get the long form last time.

People who refuse to participate will hurt themselves and their districts in the long run.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:27 PM
 
Location: In the woods
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I've been seeing all kinds of promotions to answering the Census on the news. I've heard newscasters say something like there's some constitutional law saying we have to reply, another saying that there is a $100 fine for lying, and charts showing the millions of dollars in costs of hiring census workers to collect info if we deadbeats don't send it in.

Wow, I guess they're really serious about getting those of us that do not respond . . . I never did complete my form for the last two Censuses. Workers knocked on my door; lied to one the first me and felt like kicking the other one out of my house the second time (they kept asking over and over if I was from a foreign country when I was born and bred in the good ol USA).

Oh, to answer the original question: Haven't filled it out yet but do plan to. I won't lie this time but not sure about answering *every* question.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:35 PM
 
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People who refuse to participate will hurt themselves and their districts in the long run.
Do you have any idea what the government actually does with the data collected?

Nice jab sir, but I'm pretty sure I'm helping out my community a lot more than you will ever. As a local middle school math tutor, volunteer to help local homeless shelters, habitat for humanity through my employer and member of the Northern Virginia Community Foundation, I feel pretty good about contributing to MY community.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:36 PM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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Sent it in the day after we got it--quick and painless!

I felt like it was awful anticlimactic though. The government and the news and everything has built it up to be SO IMPORTANT AND SO AWESOME and it was just 2 questions and took 2 minutes. At the end I was like...."That's it? Doesn't the government want to know all the cool stuff about me?!?!?!"
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:37 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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No, I threw it in the trash.
They adjust for that. Won't matter.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:45 PM
 
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Sent it in the day after we got it--quick and painless!

I felt like it was awful anticlimactic though. The government and the news and everything has built it up to be SO IMPORTANT AND SO AWESOME and it was just 2 questions and took 2 minutes. At the end I was like...."That's it? Doesn't the government want to know all the cool stuff about me?!?!?!"
2 questions?

Actually there is 10, and 7 more for every additional person living in the home.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:47 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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By the way, willful non-participation in the census is a Federal crime.
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Unread 03-22-2010, 07:47 PM
 
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They adjust for that. Won't matter.
What % do they expect to not fill it out?
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