Now that all Qualified Assistance Centers and Be Counted Sites are closed, Census enumerators will start visiting homes that did not mail in their forms.

All census workers that come to your door will have a badge, a handheld device or computer to enter data, an official Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice.

Other things to look for:

• The Census Bureau does NOT conduct the 2010 Census via the Internet
• The Census Bureau does not send emails about participating in the 2010 Census
• The Census Bureau never:
  • Asks for your full social security number
  • Asks for money or a donation
  • Sends requests on behalf of a political party
  • Requests PIN codes, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial account

The census taker’s primary responsibility is to collect census information from residences. Most of these residences have not sent back their 2010 Census form.

• The Census Bureau provides the census taker with a binder containing all of the addresses that didn’t send back a filled out census form.
• The census taker then visits all of those addresses and records the answers to the questions on the form.
• If no one answers at a particular residence, a census taker will visit a home up to three times and attempt to reach the household by phone three times. The census worker will leave a double-sided (English and Spanish) NOTICE of VISIT in the doorway that includes a phone number for the resident to schedule an appointment.

The census taker will ONLY ask the questions that appear on the census form.

Please select HERE to see more a more complete list of what to look for and what to do if you receive questionable contact.