Eric Lauritzen Info

Filling out the Census form is easy

I’m very happy to be working for the Census this year. Its a great job that came along at a great time. Much more, I’m extremely impressed with the operation, organization, and efficiency of the whole thing.

I’ve also learned more about the importance of the thing. Whatever you believe about the government, if the government doesn’t know you are there, it can’t do much for you. Well, it can tax you, but you just won’t see any of it back in terms of disaster relief, schools, etc.

This is absolutely a case of the “left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.” And with the Census, it has to be that way. The IRS and any and every other entity out there, by law, can not and will not know anything about the little bit of information we collect. They’ll have access to the statistics but nothing with your name on it.

I’ve been around classified information and other “stuff” in my earlier military career and the lengths we go to to protect personal information collected in the census meets and sometimes exceeds the lengths the government goes to protecting classified information.

I’ll be writing more about the Census as time goes on. In the meanwhile, if you have any questions or experiences you want to add, please stick them in the comments.

From the Census web site:

2010 Census Timeline: Key Dates

Fall 2008: Recruitment begins for local census jobs for early census operations.

Spring 2009: Census employees go door-to-door to update address list nationwide.

Fall 2009: Recruitment begins for census takers needed for peak workload in 2010.

February – March 2010: Census questionnaires are mailed or delivered to households.

April 1, 2010: Census Day

April – July 2010: Census takers visit households that did not return a questionnaire by mail.

December 2010: By law, Census Bureau delivers population counts to President for apportionment.

March 2011: By law, Census Bureau completes delivery of data to states.

2010 Census: 2010 Census Timeline: Key Dates

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