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12-28-2007, 08:25 PM
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Census Questions
OK I got mine today...
The last time I got a long form BOOK (1 in 250 got those) and I refused to answer some questions. They kept threatening me "It's the LAW! It's the LAW!" and coming back until I did answer many of the questions.
So... this one is not as big... BUT why do they need to know all this stuff?
sex
race
mortgage?
amount
2nd mortgage
amount
# bathrooms
etc etc etc...
heating fuel
insurance
Who are these people and will you answer ALL the questions???????????
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12-28-2007, 09:27 PM
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And WHY did I get a census now for the 2010 census?
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12-28-2007, 09:31 PM
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Some of those seem intrusive. I think it's the gov't. but they are sure gettin nosey.
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12-28-2007, 09:47 PM
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There's a saying in business: You can't manage what you don't measure.
By measuring as much as they can get, they hope to be able to better manage the nation's resources. That's my charitable view.
Also, the census is required by our Constitution. It's how Congressional seats are allocated, though all you need is a head count for that.
Plus, every now and then some interesting trivia comes up. For example, one of the earliest reports of a cancer cluster involved scrotal cancer among London chimney sweeps in the 18th century.
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12-28-2007, 09:48 PM
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I think it's interesting. I do our family genealogy. Back in the early 1800's the questions on the census were VERY basic. They didn't even include the wife's name or children's names in the earliest ones.
By the late 1800's, early 1900's, they were getting MUCH more info. Names of all family members, as well as anyone living in the household. Ages, birthyears, whether employed, ability to read and write, etc.
Fast forward to the current census........... They just keep asking more and more!!!
For those of us doing genealogy that is a huge blessing. I get sooooooo much more from the 1900 census than I can from the 1800 census. But to be the one giving the info....... Well, that's a different side of the coin.
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12-28-2007, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by pelathais
There's a saying in business: You can't manage what you don't measure.
By measuring as much as they can get, they hope to be able to better manage the nation's resources. That's my charitable view.
Also, the census is required by our Constitution. It's how Congressional seats are allocated, though all you need is a head count for that.
Plus, every now and then some interesting trivia comes up. For example, one of the earliest reports of a cancer cluster involved scrotal cancer among London chimney sweeps in the 18th century.
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We just had to go there didn't we?? LOL!
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12-28-2007, 09:49 PM
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So there is no privacy issue here?
Am i the only one who does not answer all the ?????????
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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12-28-2007, 10:46 PM
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I just don't get the # of bathroom's ?. I understand most of the others. The mortgage ? obviously puts you in a class of society, lower, middle and upper. The heating fuel ? is it how much do you use or what kind of fuel? What kind of insurance, home, life, auto? or all of the above. And the reason they are doing the 2010 census now is it takes a longgggggggg time to count all that data. lol
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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12-28-2007, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
So there is no privacy issue here?
Am i the only one who does not answer all the ?????????
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We got one of longer questionnaires a few years ago and I set it aside.... and only answered later because I had too!! As I recall I did not answer every one. 
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12-28-2007, 10:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
And WHY did I get a census now for the 2010 census?
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Considering government efficiency, maybe you just now received the 2000 census form a little late.
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