The "American Community Survey"

[scttgrd]

Has anyone heard of or recieved this garbage? I have done some reading on it and the census bureau is bullying people into filling it out. They call and visit your home to intimidate you to complete it. How the he!! is this legal?

 

[FoBoT]

link?
what?

 

[scttgrd]

Here is a link I found on this.

http://jayseae.cxliv.org/2006/...n_community_survey.php

 

[FoBoT]

talk to your congressman/senators

they passed the law
the census guys didn't make it up themself


direct link to the .gov site

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://ask.census.gov/cgi-bin/askcensus.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=642">https://ask.census.gov/cgi-......dp.php?p_faqid=642</a>

Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully
neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized
officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency
thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized
officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions
on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey
provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title,
applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related,
or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall
be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of
this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in
such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be
fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person
shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious
beliefs or to membership in a religious body.

 

[scttgrd]

What would be the need to know what time I go to work?

Here is a PDF of the actual survey, how much of this would you be comfortable with?

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/SQuest07.pdf

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: scttgrd
What would be the need to know what time I go to work?

They have no need for that information. They put the question in there just to annoy you.

Here is a PDF of the actual survey, how much of this would you be comfortable with?

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/SQuest07.pdf

It's just a census survey. I'm sure these don't come around more than once in 10 years. I don't see why you're so worked up about a process that plays such an important role in framing policy and legislation.

 

[Accipiter22]

Why are you bitching? Are you THAT busy?

Hell, in Australia even voting is mandatory.

 

[SmoochyTX]

I didn't take part in the last census. They kept coming by and calling me though. LOL

If they wanted me to fill this out, I'd ignore it too.