28-01-2010, 08:14 PM
I recall in 2000 I got one of the relatively rare "long forms". Apparently this time around, there will be no "Long Forms" and the Census has been pared down to a relatively innocuous set of 10 questions (which are still 9 too many).
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/in...e-form.php
But...now there is a Census Spin Off called the "American Community Survey." This is where it begins to get freaky. And absolutely diverges from even a charade of constitutionality.
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/changesin2010.aspx
In every decennial census since 1940, two questionnaires have been used to collect information: a "short form" with only basic questions such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin; and a "long form" with the basic short-form questions plus about 50 additional questions on socioeconomic and housing characteristics. Only a subset of households received the long-form questionnaire—about one in every six in 2000. However, for the first time since 1940, the 2010 Census will be a short-form-only census. This is because the decennial long form has been replaced by the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is a nationwide, continuous survey designed to provide reliable and timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data every year. The ACS will replace the long form in 2010 and thereafter by collecting long-form-type information throughout the decade rather than only once every 10 years.
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/in...e-form.php
But...now there is a Census Spin Off called the "American Community Survey." This is where it begins to get freaky. And absolutely diverges from even a charade of constitutionality.
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/changesin2010.aspx
In every decennial census since 1940, two questionnaires have been used to collect information: a "short form" with only basic questions such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin; and a "long form" with the basic short-form questions plus about 50 additional questions on socioeconomic and housing characteristics. Only a subset of households received the long-form questionnaire—about one in every six in 2000. However, for the first time since 1940, the 2010 Census will be a short-form-only census. This is because the decennial long form has been replaced by the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is a nationwide, continuous survey designed to provide reliable and timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data every year. The ACS will replace the long form in 2010 and thereafter by collecting long-form-type information throughout the decade rather than only once every 10 years.
"If you're looking for something that isn't there, you're wasting your time and the taxpayers' money."
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses