Are those two seperate options (haven't got mine yet)?
― musicfanatic, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Got mine Monday, returned Tuesday morning. Came home to a vaguely "threatening" postcard Tuesday afternoon about returning it OR ELSE. Really?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
yup
13 USC Sec. 221TITLE 13 - CENSUS
CHAPTER 7 - OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
SUBCHAPTER II - OTHER PERSONS
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500.
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh I'm surprised by the "threat" just that the sent me the follow-up postcard literally the day after I got my forms. I know it takes like 3 minutes, but still.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
There's an add on the bus stop near my work encouraging people to fill out the census form so that Chicago Transit Authority knows how many more buses to add, which hurts me in my feelings area because the CTA just cut a ton of service, including my favorite bus, and no amount of census data is going to change that because we're broke.
That said, I filled out and returned our census form because I am a sucker for doing my civic duty. Also like I said in the Chicago thread, we straight, white, middle-class, married people need to STAND UP AND BE COUNTED.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxpost There's one checkbox that says "Black, Afr. Amer., or Negro" iirc; I guess it's not really a separate option but there's still some distinction apparently. The one for white just says "White"
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Please check one
[ ] I'm white btw
― dmr, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
[ ] No homo
― kenan, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 23:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
i can hear the arguments in the congressional census committee about the black/AfAm/negro language -- they were just trying to cover their bases i'm sure
just like some people say "where do you live" and others say "where do you stay" -- covering their bases
i just would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in those meetings where they hash it all out, including the Special Latino Question of 2010
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
got my form today, pretty excited
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
wouldn't you love to see the first draft of this thing? i would.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
nice! i completed my census while 100% sober, but i will say that i felt a bit of giddiness when i was done.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm drunk should i do it now
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
why is this the first time i received a census form? wha happen 1990 & 2000??
― velko, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ed, is it going to be like me filing in UK voter registration with the equivalent of 'nobody in here but us chickens'?
― ned ragú (suzy), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
mailed mine this morning. woooo
― dmr, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
it doesn't have enough questions for my satisfaction!
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Blimey, they don't ask for a lot of detail and still, talk radio thinks its an imposition. And why am I getting robocalls to write in that I'm diabetic? Is that a race? Where do I say I'm a Jedi?
suzy, I'm here for the purposes of the census.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
you should include a narrative portion about your race/ethnicity
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
true story on my form underneath the part where it says "THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION" i wrote in "NO, THANK YOU"
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
there should really be more races to select
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
why give so much primacy (a separate box) to guamanians or samoans, but nothing to mixed race with no latino? dumb. i just want to know how that happened.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
what about germans, irish, greeks, italians, dutch, spaniards
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
swedes, norges, croats
Because Guam and US Samoa are territories? Seriously would not be for any other reason. xpost
― ned ragú (suzy), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
What I don't understand is there is no box for immigration status. I have to fill in the form but I'm not eligible to vote, so if enough people like me fill in a form (and there are many foreign students in Pittsburgh) does pittsburgh get extra representation?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes indeed, isn't that weird?
― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
maybe they figure that the foreign student population is relatively stable even if the actual students are different people? i also can't imagine there are tens of thousands of foreign students?
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
like foreign students, children can't vote but their interests are still represented based on the census because they live there
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hooray proving you exist!
― kenan, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
I had a quick look at the website but couldn't find any obvious boldface size 72 information, so anybody know what overseas americans should do? I can't fill it out online, do I need to drop by the embassy?
― I request "Fireflies" (dyao), Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
;_;
WASHINGTON -- Utah Rep. Jim Matheson is pressing to end the Census Bureau's policy of excluding Americans overseas in its once-a-decade headcount.
really wanted to enable history and schools sorry dudes
Thank God for Utah, though.
― kenan, Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Inspired by a friend's FB status: how many or you women who live with one or more dudes listed yourself as person one on the census form? *raises hand*
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
And I totally did it on purpose as a political statement.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
my roommate filled ours out while i was at work
received text "what is your ethnicity and your age? census"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahahaha that guy
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
saddest part of the experience was that i didn't get to see the look on his face when he received text and found out i am hispanic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
xp I hope you are now a 53 year old negro.
― kenan, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
after 10 months of struggling with his spanish homework... xp wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is a very hoos-oriented census, as it's designed to tell us if you're secretly hispanic
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
real talk
― kenan, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Today at Goodwill I saw Census forms for people to be counted who do not have an address.
― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think the "live/stay" language is because they want to count people who may be staying somewhere on a temporary basis and won't otherwise be counted.
i think this is because the census is worried that if the significant population of americans who are latino/hispanic aren't given an option to list that as their ethnicity, they might get tripped up and choose white.
Wait, but most Latinos *should* be choosing white as their race, right? (Unless they're not, of course -- e.g., many Dominicans, Panamanians, etc.).
The thing that I found most interesting was that "Asian" was not an option for race, but specific Asian nationalities (like Indian, Chinese, etc.) were. I guess it makes sense why the Census would want to break that down, especially since the term "Asian" in the U.S. tends to connote East Asian and so you might have a Pakistani-American who gets confused and decides that they're not actually Asian. But there's a weird implication there that "Chinese" or "Japanese" is a race instead of a nationality or ethnicity, which probably only makes things more confusing for some people. Like, I can imagine a Mexican-American looking at this and thinking "if Chinese is a race, then Mexican is a race" and checking the "Some other race" box.
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
I listed myself as Person 1 only because I'm way more excited about the census than Kr is.
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is what I look like holding my 'person no. 1' status.
― demonic splendor, demonic majesty (Abbott), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
You look super fly.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
go get you some benefits girl
― f. huey gray (tremendoid), Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't know why i am paranoid about this, but filled it nonethelessmailing it tomorrow
― Walter Pate On 'sweetness' (jdchurchill), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:35 (3 years ago) Permalink