Are you required to fill out the US Census American Community Survey too?

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

I just filled out my census form last night. They wanted to know how many people lived in our house, names, birthdates and racial background. That was it.
Sue

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

The detail required looks rather like a 'Staff Survey' where I used to work. It was supposedly anonymous, but you had to say which location you were at, which department and what grade. Although there were over 600 people in our location there were only 6 in my department and only me on my grade. Very anonymous - not.

My employer did a survey like that once. When it came time to fill out the personal information, I change race, sex, religion, department and anything else I could about my life. When I questioned them I was told that my answers were "confidential" and not anonymous.

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

I just filled out my census form last night. They wanted to know how many people lived in our house, names, birthdates and racial background. That was it.
Sue

What Walt is talking about sounds more like a scam using the U.S. census as a backdrop. I'm afraid I wouldn't be filling out any of the personal information at the risk of being phished.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I didn't get a form?

I was away 3/12 to 3/27 - a friend watched our cat and took in out mail.

I did not get a census form - what to do?

[deede Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close deede]

On the other hand, I have not receive the form, but I believe there is 10 questions, personal information like name and birthday is there. Which I have no idea why is it needed. Why not just race, age, ethic group be enough?

Jya-Ning

Obviously, there are several surveys going out to the public. We have completed both (I should say, "my husband has completed them" I refused)

The first one: a 28-page booklet. (that a certain portion of population got last year, before the 10-question survey was distributed this year)
The second one: the 10-questions that most of the public received
The third one: Just arrived in the mail (hubby finally got tired of this, and has not opened the letter -- but it is thick, so I assume it is more than 10 questions)

The interesting (I should asinine) thing is once we received the booklet, we received calls daily (honestly, every 3 hours) wanting to know when we were going to return the completed survey booklet. I just let the calls go to the answering machine, and that is how my hubby discovered I had NOT responded. He called Census to see if this was really the bureau calling all the time, and discovered it was. At that time, they asked if he would answer a few questions for them via the phone.

My question: If we completed each and every survey sent to our home, won't that screw up the data or something? I mean, if several homes are surveyed several times, it seems to me that is double (in our case, triple) counting. I refuse to believe we are the only household receiving all of this.