As I warned a couple of weeks ago, blogging will be very light as I am working 3 jobs (one full time, one part time and one on an irregular basis).
Keeps both me and WS off the streets at night. Oh wait, it keeps me on the streets at night with Census work, but it keeps WS busy with dishes, laundry etc.
It has been very windy, here, the last few days (40G50, 28G35, etc) and a Form D-26 was found snuggling in the strawberry patch last evening. Called the census taker who took down the identifying numbers on the form and promised to get a duplicate form to the right person(s). The elements can make your census work challenging!
Posted by: Cop Car | May 08, 2010 at 09:51 AM
P.S. To anyone who is paranoid: the government goes to great lengths to protect privacy. From looking at the form (which was to tell someone that the census-taker had called, but had found no one at that address, and asking that someone call the census-taker) there was no way that I had any idea whether the form had come from across the street, across the city, or across the county. Other than the census-taker's name (not in phone book) and the fact that the census-taker's phone number had a local area code, I wouldn't even know what state the form was from. Good show!
Posted by: Cop Car | May 08, 2010 at 09:55 AM
I just put my first name and cell number on the D-26. That way they don'e know what my last name is, so can't find me thru the phone book, and the cell number is unlisted. They only know the phone has a NH area code - but that means nothing since I know people that have area codes from Michigan on their cells.
The Census does take pains to keep info private and we HAVE to report within 1 hour if anything comes up missing from our files (and we have to keep the doors to our vehicles locked to keep info safe).
Posted by: bogie | May 08, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Interesting security measures. The census worker whose form I found had printed both of his names!
The reason I tried to look his name up was because I didn't read the form well enough (it was crumbled and beaten up enough that I didn't even realize that a phone number was on it) to see that the name was the census worker, not the resident. I was thinking of taking the form to a neighbor if they were close.
Posted by: Cop Car | May 09, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Heck, we don't even know who we are going to talk to. After all, we are going to see if an address was occupied, not if a certain family still lives there.
Posted by: bogie | May 10, 2010 at 03:55 AM