by NC Census
June 02, 2010
Census Day has passed, but the US Census Bureau is still busy conducting the 2010 Census count. Census workers – or enumerators – are visiting addresses that did not return a Census form and will continue their follow-up visits into July. Some people completed and returned their Census form, but they are still being visited by a Census worker or getting a Census Bureau phone call. While there are a number of reasons you may receive follow-up contact by the US Census Bureau if you returned your Census form, here are a few of the more likely reasons.
You may be visited by a Census worker if …
- The US Census Bureau received your mailed in Census form too late to remove your address from the follow-up visit list. Since some forms get lost in the mail, Census enumerators are trained to ask the Census questions at every address they are assigned.
- There was missing or conflicting information on your mailed in Census form.
- The Census Bureau can not match the address you provided either on a “Be Counted” form or over the phone with their master address list.
You may get a phone call from the Census Bureau if …
- The number you provided for how many people live in that address on April 1 does not match the number of people for whom you provided information.
- Your Census form indicates that additional people were staying at the address on April 1 but were not included in the household’s count.
- The Census Bureau suspects that they received duplicate information about a housing unit or individual. A Census worker will follow-up to make sure people are not counted twice.
These follow-up contacts by the US Census Bureau are being made to make sure that the 2010 Census count is accurate - that everyone is counted once and in the place where they usually live.
