Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Perils of Enumeration

This week I began calling on homes in order to collect data for the US 2010 Census.
Today a resident told me: "Thank you for doing this." So maybe there are more blessings than perils.
When I was recruiting folks for this job several voiced their concerns. Many were worried about personal safety. That's worthy of concern. I learned today that Census workers have already died as a result of traffic accidents. But that's not what people were worried about. They were worried about the people inside the houses. I was worried about the dogs outside the houses. So far, no big problems.

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