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Actually a more logical and simplier reason for lower levels of responses from areas with negative growth is the OBVIOUS one - a lot of the people they are awaiting responses from have simply moved away and are no longer there.
Ken
You're absolutely right. Thank you for the insight.
I was hoping that other people would bring different perspectives to the thread. It is an interesting map to look at.
You're absolutely right. Thank you for the insight.
I was hoping that other people would bring different perspectives to the thread. It is an interesting map to look at.
You are quite welcome.
I agree it's a great map - REALLY interesting.
We had census takers 3 times out near my house and it turns out that one of the houses they were still trying to get info on was the residence of an elderly woman who died a couple of months back - so I know there's a LOT of "clean up" type data collection needing to be done. As with any data collection, getting the first inputs is the easiest and it's the stagglers' info that's hardest to collect (for a variety of reasons).
You are quite welcome.
I agree it's a great map - REALLY interesting.
We had census takers 3 times out near my house and it turns out that one of the houses they were still trying to get info on was the residence of an elderly woman who died a couple of months back - so I know there's a LOT of "clean up" type data collection needing to be done. As with any data collection, getting the first inputs is the easiest and it's the stagglers' info that's hardest to collect (for a variety of reasons).
Ken
Boy does that remind me of something funny. 20 years ago when I was growing up, I had a "fort" of sorts (I was really into building things, and myself and my father put up a "fort" that truly looked like a small cabin with a tower on one corner). It even had a gate, a fake address number (for a non-existant street that was actually just a path to the woods out back) and an old mailbox by the door. It was right at the end of our driveway in the yard behind our house. The census worker after going to our house went to my fort and knocked, then left a paper when no one answered. All of us watched this out the living room window and we laughing so hard. I still laugh remembering that...I wonder if that was marked as not participating in the census...ROFL
I would suspect that would be by avoiding hiring the thousands and thousands of individual census takers who have to go out to these milllions of homes and collect the data one at a time. All that labor is very very costly - not just the time to do the actually data collection, but also the time to hire and train those folks (and there's a LOT of them that get hired to collect all that straggler data). The number of such temporary workers is estimated to be up to 700,000.
Personally I find the whole thing absurd & expensive. Just another way to waste our money paying for unneeded Govt employees.
They know exactly who lives where & how many kids etc. They have this info to tax us with & those on welfare not paying their own way or contributing to our economy are also documented. The only possible thing they can gain is numbers of illegals & they shouldn't matter.
They say its needed to give us our fair share in Federal aid. Well if they didn't take it in the first place they wouldn't need to worry about it. Why tax us & then make us do tricks & beg for it back? Because they want to pull the strings thats why. The simple fact is the feds should only recieve enough funding to run the gov't, not to redistribute wealth. A more un-American thing does not exist.
This trend of ours is simply sickening.
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