How to Fill it Out
Filling out the census form takes under 10 minutes.
One of the best things you can do to prepare for the 2010 census is to take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the form that will be mailed to your primary residence:
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010_Questionnaire_Info.pdf
The 2010 questionnaire asks the following questions about every person:
- Their name
- Their relationship to the head-of-household (usually the person answering the questions)
- Their gender
- Their age and date of birth
- Their race
- If they sometimes live somewhere else
The questionnaire also asks the head-of-household:
- How many people are living in the house, apartment, or mobile home
- If there are other people staying with them that weren’t included in the previous question
- If they own or rent the housing unit
- Their telephone number
This simple, short questionnaire takes only a few minutes to complete and return by mail.
How to Fill it Out
Filling out the census form takes under 10 minutes.
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Where to Fill it Out
Every New Yorkers should fill out his or her census form at their
primary place of residence. But given the incredibly diverse – and
incredibly mobile – population in New York, that’s not always so
easy to determine.
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Census in the Schools
The Census Bureau is making a special effort to reach out to
students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
This
Census in Schools program has its own website.
This site includes information for teachers, kids, and teens. There
are activities for students, including coloring pages and state
facts pages, and lesson plans for teachers.
Information about these special activities is being sent to the
principal of every school serving K-8 students.
2000 Census Data
You can learn a lot about your town, city, and state from past
census data – from the number of people living in a section of
Syracuse to the average age of people in Yonkers to the density of
Manhattan, the most densely populated county in the country.
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