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I just did my 2020 US census thing online. This despite the fact that:
(a) It got my address wrong. My apartment complex has lettered buildings and numbered apartments, and their form had only the apartment number. Let's call it 111. Well, there are 6 apartment 111s in this complex, each in a different lettered building. I tried to correct it but then the page told me I couldn't submit and had to call a phone number, so I just backed out and redid the form without telling them the address was wrong. Hope they don't have to actually contact me.
(b) The form says to give your legal name and biological sex. To which I said "fuck you" and gave the name I'm currently using (neither my legal name nor the legal name I'll have once I do an official name change) and my sex as male. The Census Bureau is not supposed to cross-reference records*, so it's not like they're going to know.
*In particular, not social security records. One thing I know from having worked as an enumerator during the 2010 census is that the Census Bureau will never ask for your social security number. If someone asks for that, they're not really from the Census Bureau and they are trying to scam you.
. . . oh, dear. It just occurred to me to wonder how the door-to-door stuff will be handled this year. It probably won't get underway until June, and hopefully the pandemic will be under control by then, but if not, they're going to have even more trouble than usual getting people to answer their doors.
(Best way to avoid an unwanted visit by a census taker? Fill in the form. As a general rule, they will only come and bother you if your form is not filled out or was incomplete.)
I still need to do my taxes. Maybe next week.
(a) It got my address wrong. My apartment complex has lettered buildings and numbered apartments, and their form had only the apartment number. Let's call it 111. Well, there are 6 apartment 111s in this complex, each in a different lettered building. I tried to correct it but then the page told me I couldn't submit and had to call a phone number, so I just backed out and redid the form without telling them the address was wrong. Hope they don't have to actually contact me.
(b) The form says to give your legal name and biological sex. To which I said "fuck you" and gave the name I'm currently using (neither my legal name nor the legal name I'll have once I do an official name change) and my sex as male. The Census Bureau is not supposed to cross-reference records*, so it's not like they're going to know.
*In particular, not social security records. One thing I know from having worked as an enumerator during the 2010 census is that the Census Bureau will never ask for your social security number. If someone asks for that, they're not really from the Census Bureau and they are trying to scam you.
. . . oh, dear. It just occurred to me to wonder how the door-to-door stuff will be handled this year. It probably won't get underway until June, and hopefully the pandemic will be under control by then, but if not, they're going to have even more trouble than usual getting people to answer their doors.
(Best way to avoid an unwanted visit by a census taker? Fill in the form. As a general rule, they will only come and bother you if your form is not filled out or was incomplete.)
I still need to do my taxes. Maybe next week.
