Posting this for a friend. A friend of his was visited and escorted the census worker off his property.
"Read it and weep!"
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S. Federal Census - 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data:
U.S. Federal Census Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent. Microfilm, 1 roll. Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley.
Schedules of Handicapped, Dependent, and Delinquent Inhabitants of Illinois (10th Federal Census). 1880. Microfilm, 5 rolls. Record Series 951.023. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Iowa, 1850-1880. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T1156, rolls 50-53). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
About U.S. Federal Census - 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
In the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, a supplemental schedule called “Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes” was included. This schedule included different forms to enumerate the following classes of individuals:
Insane
Idiots
Deaf-mutes
Blind
Paupers and Indigent persons
Homeless children
Prisoners
This data collection currently contains these schedules for the following states:
California
Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Washington
In addition to the individual’s name, their race, gender, age and residence were also included. For individuals with mental or physical illness, questions regarding their medical history were asked. For the homeless children, questions about their parents were asked. For the prisoners, details regarding their imprisonment were asked.
This poll will be over in 12 hours. Take a look. If we can trust the numbers, over 50 per cent got more than one form, and if they were told to send them all in, do you see how the numbers can get skewed?
Silly me, I thought it was an .........accident. I received two forms, one right after the other, not one or two days apart. This was weeks back. And mind you, this is on top of the Census stalking ......
(CNSNews.com)– About 40 million “replacement” Census questionnaires are being sent nationwide to households in areas with low mail return rates, even if those households already have returned the first form they received, Census officials announced on Thursday.
And just days after completing their paid training, hundreds of Census enumerators in Northern Virginia were abruptly laid off without explanation on Thursday.
Census officials said mailing out a second form is designed to increase census mail participation, get a better headcount for the states, and save taxpayers the cost of sending out census takers to collect information.
The Census Bureau estimates that mailing a second questionnaire “in targeted areas” could save more than $500 million and raise the participation rate by 7 to 10 percentage points.
But what about double counting?
“[P]eople who have completed and returned their questionnaires need not fill out the replacement Census form,” said a news release issued Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau's Charlotte region. "You should only complete and return one census form," the release said. “Extra census forms should be discarded.”