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2010 Census - Stand Up and Be Counted $800 Rebate 100% Financing Zero Interest 18 KIUC CURRENTS Hawai‘i residents are standing up and being counted in Census 2010. Nearly a third of Census 2010 forms mailed to Hawai‘i residences in the first week of the count were mailed back, according to representatives at the State Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism. The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to count everyone residing in the United States every 10 years. That includes all 50 states, Washington, D.C., American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana <strong>Island</strong>s, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin <strong>Island</strong>s. Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution specifies that congressional seats will be distributed proportionately among states on the basis of a census to be conducted every 10 years. Federal law penalizes those who do not fill out a form ($100 fine) or who provide false information ($500 fine). The federal government allocates more than $300 billion a year to states and communities based, in part, on census data. The money helps fund everything from roads and schools to health care and childcare centers. Questionnaires were mailed in March, and were due April 1. Census workers will conduct followup visits to residences who do not return forms. If every household mails back its form— more than 120 million have been mailed out—the government could save $1.5 billion in followup visits. If residents mail back their census form, it costs the government 42 cents compared to an estimated $56 to obtain a household’s census response in person.
Here are some other census facts: ◼ One of the shortest census questionnaires in history, the 2010 Census has only 10 questions, which the Census Bureau estimates will take 10 minutes to complete. Among the questions are whether a resident owns or rents, and information about each household member: name, sex, age, race and relationship to the person filling out the form. ◼ The census asks how many people live or sleep in a given household as of April 1. Respondents should include babies born on or before April 1, 2010, as well as nonU.S. citizens. College students who live away from home and military personnel should not be counted on household surveys. Divorced parents who share custody of a child should indicate where a child usually lives. ◼ Americans have been counted since 1790. The 2010 Census is the 23rd head count in U.S. history. The first was conducted on Monday, August 2, 1790. The population then was 3.9 million. This year’s official Census Day is April 1. The expected population is 309 million. ◼ The Census Bureau predicts twothirds of U.S. households will fill out and mail back the 2010 Census. Among those least likely to return forms are illegal immigrants, Hispanics, young adults, city dwellers and residents displaced by foreclosures. Census takers will canvass city streets in an attempt to include the homeless. ◼ Rural areas and places with a large poor population tend to benefit most from an accurate census. The largest state program that relies on federal census statistics is Medicaid, the government health care program for lowincome people. ◼ In 2000, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and North Carolina had belowaverage mail participation rates. Since then, they have seen higher rates of foreclosures. If responses are low this year, these states could be cheated of federal dollars and congressional seats. ◼ This year, the government lined up a $130 million campaign—complete with Super Bowl and Winter Olympics ads, a censussponsored NASCAR race car, and a nationwide road tour—to encourage people to mail back their census forms. ◼ Census 2010 by the numbers: 360 million, 29 miles, 11.6 million pounds. That is the total number of questionnaires printed (360 million), how high they would stand stacked in a pile (29 miles high—more than five times higher than Mt. Everest) and the collective weight of the paper the questionnaires were printed on (11.6 million pounds). If stretched end to end, the questionnaires would circle the globe three times. All responses to the census are confidential and used for statistical purposes only. By law, the answers individuals give cannot be shared with anyone, including welfare, law enforcement or immigration agencies. Census workers take an oath to protect the confidentiality of the information provided. APRIL 2010 19
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