The census is every 10 years, and it’s largely done by mail. Every household gets a form in the mail that you’re required to fill out and return. The only time I’ve had a census worker show up at my house was when I forgot to fill out the form and the deadline was approaching. If you return the form before the deadline, the census workers won’t have you on their list because you’ve already been counted.
The 2020 census was a clusterfuck thanks to Trump wanting to include a question about whether the person was an illegal immigrant or not.
Didn’t they also drag it out in city centers in order to deliberately undercount the urban population? I seem to remember that it went on forever, and then they just quit without finishing some conveniently high-minority areas.
2000 was the last time they had people go door to door (I did it for an area in my city. It was pretty decent pay for an easy job). Since then, in 2010 they sent out a version of the questioner in the mail, and 2020 was basically just a postcard with a link to the online version.
The only way they really know if you should get a questioner is by taxes. If you haven’t done taxes in the last years or whatever then you probably didn’t get asked anything.
They had people go door to door in 2010. I was one of the people who did that. It was decent pay especially during the recession at the time.
Didn’t know they had any in '10. Yeah I enjoyed the job.
