{"id":1580,"date":"2010-04-12T01:21:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:28:35","slug":"census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/04\/census\/","title":{"rendered":"Census"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone in the US should have just gone through this experience, but I’m blogging about it since I may find it fun to read later, and you may find it interesting if you’re not in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On March 8, 2010, I found a plastic bag hanging on my door. It contained a census form. I knew it was coming, because about a week before it arrived, I received a letter from the US Census Bureau informing me that I would soon be receiving one. It’s a good thing they spent money on sending me that warning letter, because if the form had arrived unexpectedly, I would have no idea what to do with it, even if it came with a letter explaining how important it was, just like the warning letter had done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside of the bag was an envelope:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The envelope contained a letter explaining a little bit about the census. It asked me to mail back the form that day, so even though I saw the census when I came back to my apartment after work, I got it in the mailbox before midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"letter\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The back of the letter revealed an interesting note about confidentiality. I didn’t know that the replies were kept confidential for 72 years and then made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Ah, yes, the old “use the destination address as the return address to avoid postage fees” trick \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"return<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was comforting knowing that if I ran into trouble, help was only a phone call away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"help<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t need any help, though, as the form was very short, and only took me a couple of minutes to fill out. Here are some pictures of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full first page<\/a> | Full second page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the ways Person 2 could be related to Person 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"relationship\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And here were some of the options for race:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty painless, huh? All that was left was to seal the form inside of the postage-paid envelope and drop it in the mail. And the U.S. Census Bureau even had a well-placed thank-you note on the flap of the envelope:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone in the US should have just gone through this experience, but I’m blogging about it since I may find it fun to read later, and you may find it interesting if you’re not in the United States. On March 8, 2010, I found a plastic bag hanging on my door. It contained a census … Continue reading Census<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}