[or-roots] Next Census - counting the homeless

[cklooster at aol.com]

I should have seen that one coming...you're way too knowledgeable about census matters!??? My whine comes from living almost thirty years in a remote Alaskan village with few houses and I ended up on the monthly survey list at five or six times over the years.? I probably skewed the stats though since I usually put in more than?sixty hours a week in a community with about 30% unemployment. I couldn't believe it?when there was a knock on the door of my Oregon house last spring and it was the census taker.? "Are these people tracking me??!"? I did have the last laugh though...the address they were looking for wasn't mine; it was one of several addresses apparently assigned by the post office to various parts of the acreage I own even though it isn't platted as separate lots and the dwellings are non-existent.?

Carla





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From: Barbara Wulf <Wulf at bendbroadband.com>
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Sorry about that. That is what I am doing now.? We call it on going surveys.? 

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Did you ever wonder how they get the unemployment rate or figure the consumer price index or how many people don't have health insurance?? 

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http://www.census.gov/rosea/www/

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This is the office I work out of.

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Barb Wulf


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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:43 PM

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I was amazed at the 1910 census for Alaska Territory.? It was the middle of winter (February) on the Yukon river and we know that the temperature was -55 for most of that month.? The census takers?were on foot or dogsled and they hit every remote village and tent city and remote gold mine in the territory.? They even "inventoried" a group of guys who were wintering over on a riverboat that got stuck in the ice before it reached it's final destination.? Gave me a whole new respect for the census takers.??On the other hand, if you ever been subject (as I have)?to the "special census" that picks a specific house and calls or visits monthly with a whole series of questions like "How many hours did you work last month?", you tend to view the census taker in a different light!

Carla


-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Wulf <Wulf at bendbroadband.com>
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Sent: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 8:29 pm
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I have to assume they will count the homeless the same way they have for the 
last three that I worked.

They locate the shelters, where the RVers park, the transient camps, 
campgrounds (formal and informal), under overpasses and bridges, and every 
cave and stray camp the locals know about.  They even check motels for 
people that do not have another place they live.

On one particular night nationwide they send teams of at least two people to 
those places and fill out forms with everyone that is there.

If they miss the homeless it not for lack of trying.

Barb Wulf

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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:23 PM
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> Did a search on the 2010 Census to see what kind of info they'd be
> collecting this time around. Pretty barebones. And yes, the homeless will
> probably fall through the cracks 'cause you need a physical address that 
> the
> forms can be mailed to, twice if you don't respond the first time. They've
> already been busy counting buildings since February this year for mailings
> next year. The Gov site also mentions a Community Survey that is taken by
> communities - never been involved in one of those. Guess if you build a 
> new
> house after they compile the mailing addresses you might fall through too. 
> I
> was also curious how they were going to address the GLBT issue but only 
> saw
> the classic M/F boxes on the prototype...
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