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Dare County in North Carolina has more than doubled its mail-in rate since the last census. According to figures provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the coastal county went from a 35 percent participation rate in 2000 - the worst in the state - to 76 percent in 2010.
That exceeds the 72 percent national participation rate.
Census spokesman Tony Jones credits the county's Complete Count Committee and a Census Bureau partnership specialist for encouraging the better response.
"Local partners, who have been our 'trusted voices,' were instrumental in getting the word out," Jones said in an e-mail.
"Also, the census advertising campaign, which began in January, played a big part in the increase in awareness about the census."
Chowan and Alexander counties had the best response in the state at 80 percent.
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You doubt "I am who I say I am?" I didn't say I was anybody. I said My WIFE works with the census. I have nothing to do with the census. I'm just a reader of the Pilot online and read your post. I will direct you to www.census.gov though, where they list the dates when census employees are deployed either doing field work to update addresses or conduct enumerating for the census. According to their website there was no census activity in Dare County in February. Before you turn red, please understand I'm just reporting what I read on the Census website. Please take a look for yourself.
Anyone else in Dare County that received a visit from a census worker in February please make a post and correct me.
Again, I have nothing to do with the census. I am a fraud investigator for an accounting firm. In my profession, folks typically speak the truth softly and scream the lies. I'm sure this is different though. Take care.
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Wanchese, you spoke with a census representative and they confirmed that a census employee was at your home in February? I find this highly unlikely. This is the second census my wife has worked on, and she worked with the prep team for the Charlotte Regional Office since last year, which covers four or five states including NC. Census workers are not deployed in the field until after the deadline for the mail-in census. The census date is April 1st of each census year, and the deadline for submission is April 19th of the census year. They only send census workers to addresses that haven't been inputted into the database by April 24th. Additionally, census workers are trained to NOT enter a person's home...it's immediate grounds for dismissal. I understand you can't control the actions of someone when they're working independently, but this just seems so odd. Census workers are trained not to enter a home for their own safety. My wife says it's one of the things they preach during initial and ongoing training. If a person is a legitimate census worker, they should have AND present a white census employee badge and carry a black nylon bag with the official census logo in w
Are you calling me a lier sir??
The person showed my 15 yo daughter a badge and told that she HAD to answer the questions, that it was the law!!!! She got scared and let the person in!!! My 11 yo son called me about it SIR!!!! Are you saying I`m I`m not telling the truth?? Are you saying that the letter that I have at home and with the regional directors signatue is a fake?? I dought you are who you say you are SIR!!! Can me a lier in person and I would be in your face shaking the letter in it and then you would be writing a letter of appology!
Better than that!
I live in Wanchese also, never recieved a cencus form either. But better than that, my 15yo daughter recieved a visitor in Feb from a cencus taker and was told that she had to let her in under law. I went nuts when I found out and told the lady to leave..now. I recieved a written appology from the region director of the cencus. I told him if it had been a man and I came home to find this guy in the house with my daughter, he may have been shot! The director agreed that things may have been ugly! I will not answer anything except what the law requires...how many people live in the house!!
did they?
path, did they give you a reason why they were there in february. the visits should have just started i would think. sure it was a census worker? strange!
I know
I did not think it had started either. It was a longer questionaire. When I got the call that she was in the house I went crazy! I work 10 min away but 10 min may have been too late if it had not been a cesus worker. I talked to her supervisor, who has an idiot, then recieved a call from the regional director. The lady did work for them and was being retrained! Scared the hell out of me! Glad it wasn`t a impostor like I just read about on the Drudge Report. If I had come home and found a guy in my home with my kids....Oh, he better hoped that the first thing I grabbed was an old wall hanging sword and not my .45!
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In Wanchese, very few residents get mail at their households. Therefore, hardly any of the residents of Wanchese have been counted!!! Wanchese still wants and needs to be counted!! help!!