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Originally Posted by Dutchman
Having been a supervisor for the Census Bureau I might shed a bit of light on the post- 1) This was not the "Census" otherwise know as the decennial census which is next year and will primarily be done by mail- 2) This person was doing a survey by the Census Bureau under contract by another government agency, maybe Health, Justice, HUD or another- 3)The person is authorized to attempt to contact the randomly selected household to gather information and be persuasive but not belligerent and if refused to leave the premises- 4) The surveys are designed to collect information to be used by the sponsor department to determine the effectiveness of federal programs and where additional emphasis may be needed.
The most used of these surveys is the American Community Survey which has statistical data used by local and state governments and corporate planners to determine available and needed resources in a given area, usually a Metropolitan Statistical Area as mentioned in posts regarding the Sumter tax increase.
If you are approached by one of these enumerators and have any questions ask them for their supervisor's name and phone #.
That is what the police would have/should have done with this
person. Have experienced this several times in the past
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That is not what the Census Bureau web site says. They claim that they are conducting a 2019 census "test" in advance of the 2020 census to determine the viability of the proposed question about citizenship. They are not under contract with another agency. It sounds to me that these are census employees with the same legal representative and power as the official 2020 census employees will have.