Can political organizations manipulate the census?
The census process is closely watched by Congress, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce and others. Only sworn employees of the Census Bureau conduct the census. Our partners only volunteer to help raise awareness of the coming count. Could there be criminals working for the census? All census workers undergo an FBI name background check. Fingerprinting has also been added as a requirement in 2010. These security measures screened out about 16 percent of the hundreds of thousands of applicants for census operations in 2009. Will the census ask a bunch of intrusive questions? The 2010 Census will be one of the shortest and simplest in the nation’s history. It will ask 10 basic questions, including name, gender, age, date of birth, race, household relationship and if a given home is owned or rented. It asks less personal information than a typical credit card application. Should I be concerned about sharing my p
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