|
LanceHughes -> RE: Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence (5/28/2010 10:37:21 PM)
|
I'm working as a Census Enumerator. After three personal visits and three telephone contacts (in any order), we enumerators are DONE. That is NOT 6 of a 1-5 or 2-4 mixture. If we've done 3 personal and no telephone number is available, we're done. On personal visits, we usually leave a "Notice of Visit" with our phone numbers for resident to call to set-up either a phone interview or a time for a personal interview. After 3 personal and no papers-on-porch, dogs are barking, etc. the property is marked "Occupied" and we move on to next housing unit and maybe into next district.
We aren't going to spend whole summer looking for the name of one person. Panda has $ amount dead on. As a matter of fact, just found out today, Friday, May 28th that all forms must be returned to crew leaders on Monday, the 31st. If the housing unit is not marked as a CI (which is completed interview) we get to fill out an "info comm" telling why. Pain in the butt, and being used to spur end-of-May deadline compliance.
If you mailed it in late....we enumerators didn't get it, get it? Our "books of work" were produced just before being handed to us, but didn't get every late form.... Duh!
Had one lady hand me her form - and there IS a procedure to get the info recorded.
I'm real tired of the paranoids. It's okay, Lance, the Census Enumerators will stop knocking and gathering Constitutionally mandated info. The counts will ALL be approximated anyway.
The following colored section is MY opinion and should not be assumed to be that of the Census Bereau, the USA, or any other blah, blah, blah.... It is not being provided for any recompense, blah, blah, blah..... Did YOU get the memo? LOL!
For those of us that are a little older (and have seen a few more Censuses done than you young pups) this is the weakest one I can remember. I attribute the weakness of the data gathered mainly to the up-roar about accuracy last time. What a frigging back-lash there was. So, the government, in its wisdom, backed off from aggressive enumerators, thereby sacrificing accuracy.
Think about the illegal immigrant question for a minute.... States with a higher proportion of IIs might possibly receive higher representation in the US House than otherwise, but probably not. The US pop is about 310,000,000 in 2010. There are 435 Representatives. I'll do the math. 1 Representative for each 712,000 people. So, for a state to gain an extra "illegal" representative, they need that many illegals. OTHER GROWTH MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO GAINING A REPRESENTATIVE!!!
Let's see, Arizona has approx 6,500,000 people as of 2009, and 712,000 is close to 11% of 6.5 million. The question is, does Arizona have 11% illegal immigrants, and NO OTHER STATE HAS ANY? That is, Arizona currently has 8 representatives. To gain another 9th, "illegal" representative, some other state has to give up one!
Another way to think of it.... Current Arizona population (as estimated by U.S.Census bureau for 2009 - LOL - they do many more studies than just one every ten years) is 6,500,000. The 2010 divider for whole US is 712,000, meaning that Arizona will probably be assigned 9 (since 6,500,000 divided by 712,000 is 9.13) Ahhh.... but what was the increase in the divider?
Too tired to continue. (11:45 PM local time.) G'nite to all you non-math types.
|
|
|
|
