{"id":103375,"date":"2020-02-11T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=103375"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T22:02:22","slug":"what-will-the-2020-census-ask-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/what-will-the-2020-census-ask-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What will the 2020 Census Ask You? \u2013\u00a0Here is a List of Every Question on the 2020 Census Questionnaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Mark Hedin\/Ethnic Media Services<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had years of worry about the confidentiality of people\u2019s census responses, what purposes those responses would be used for, plus the possibility \u2013 now abandoned \u2013 of being asked about citizenship status. With the 2020 census now officially under way, here\u2019s a look at what those census questionnaires will actually ask us.<\/p>\n<p>There are nine questions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/decennial\/2020\/technical-documentation\/questionnaires-and-instructions\/questionnaires\/2020-informational-questionnaire.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">primary census form<\/a> (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2020censusquestionnaire). The first asks how many people live in the household. For each of those people, there\u2019s a of seven-question second form. Here are all the questions, starting with the nine asked of every household:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHow many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2020?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWere there any additional people staying here on April 1 that you did not include in Question 1?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This question offers five possible responses, in the form of checkboxes, to describe such additional people as children, relatives, live-in babysitters, guests or, in the fifth check-box, \u201cno additional people.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIs this house, apartment or mobile home &#8211;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here, the check-boxes offer four ways to complete the sentence, ranging from \u201cowned by a resident via a mortgage or a loan,\u201d to owned outright, rented or occupied rent-free.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat is your telephone number?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The questionnaire states that you would only be contacted \u201cif needed for official Census Bureau business.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fifth question is specifically directed to the person who pays the rent or owns the residence, and it asks for that person\u2019s first and last names and middle initial. From then on, this person is referred to as \u201cPerson 1.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat is Person 1\u2019s sex?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are two choices given: male and female.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Question 7 asks for Person 1\u2019s age and date of birth.<\/li>\n<li>Question 8 asks if Person 1 is of \u201cHispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The question offers five check-boxes for responding. The first is \u201cNo.\u201d The second is Mexican, Mexican-American or Chicano. The third is Puerto Rican, the fourth is Cuban and the fifth \u201cYes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin.\u201d This option is followed by space to write in a more specific description, such as \u201cSalvadoran, Dominican, Colombian, Guatemalan, Spaniard, Ecuadorian, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The instructions for this question say, \u201cfor this census, Hispanic origins are not races,\u201d and ask respondents, after answering this question, to continue to the next and final question.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat is Person 1\u2019s race?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here, respondents have 15 check-boxes to choose from, along with five places where they can write in a specific origin.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, after the first check-box, for \u201cwhite,\u201d respondents are asked to write whether they are, \u201cfor example, German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next check-box, for \u201cBlack of African Am.\u201d also has a write-in line. Its examples of possible responses are: \u201cAfrican American, Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian, Somali, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The third check box is for American Indian or Alaska Native and asks respondents here to print the name of \u201cenrolled or principle tribe(s)\u201d and gives as examples \u201cNavajo Nation, Blackfeet Tribe, Mayan, Aztec, Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional\u00a0 Government, Nome Eskimo community, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After this are 11 more check boxes, for \u201cChinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Other Asian,\u00a0 Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, Other Pacific Islander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beneath is a space in which to \u201cPrint, for example, Pakistani, Cambodian, Hmong, etc.\u201d if you\u2019ve checked the box for \u201cOther Asian.\u201d Or, if you\u2019ve checked the \u201cOther Pacific Islander\u201d box, to specify \u201cfor example, Tongan, Fijian, Marshallese, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s one more check box, for \u201cSome other race,\u201d with space to write in a specific \u201crace or origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those households with more than one person, there is a separate, seven-question form for each additional household member. Most of these questions are the same ones Person 1 will have answered, described above, starting with name.<\/p>\n<p>But Question 2, instead of asking if anyone else lives in the household, inquires if \u201cPerson 2\u201d usually lives or stays somewhere else. There are nine possible responses offered here, from \u201cno\u201d to eight \u201cyes\u201d options: at college, in the military, for work, in a nursing home, with a relative, at a second or seasonal residence, incarcerated or \u201cfor another reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Question 3 asks how Person 2 is related to Person 1. It offers 16 possibilities, from spouse or partner, with separate boxes for same-sex spouses or partners, to a variety of family relationships, such as son\/daughter, adopted son\/daughter, stepson\/daughter, sibling, parent, grandchild, parent- son- or daughter-in-law, \u201cother relative,\u201d roommate, foster child or \u201cother non-relative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remaining four questions are the same as the last four posed to Person 1 about gender, age\/birthday, Hispanic\/Latino\/Spanish origin and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Governments and community organizations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to collect this information this year, and trillions of tax dollars will be distributed over the next decade based on what this data reveals about how many people live where and what their needs are.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all \u2013 census data determines how many members of congress each state gets and how many electoral college votes. Businesses rely on census data, too, to decide where to invest. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Census data that identifies you personally is protected by the government&#8217;s most strict confidentiality rules &#8212; it&#8217;s kept sealed for 72 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Hedin\/Ethnic Media Services We\u2019ve had years of worry about the confidentiality of people\u2019s census responses, what purposes those responses would be used for, plus the possibility \u2013 now abandoned \u2013 of being asked about citizenship status. With the 2020 census now officially under way, here\u2019s a look at what those census questionnaires will&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/what-will-the-2020-census-ask-you\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,5,276,72,1848,19,20],"tags":[41355,3832,5209,5210,41354,7853,5489,147],"class_list":["post-103375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-current-affairs","category-opinion","category-politics-current-affairs","category-society","category-topics","category-youth","tag-2020-census-form","tag-2020-us-census","tag-ems","tag-ethnic-media-services","tag-ethnicity","tag-mark-hedin","tag-race","tag-siliconeer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}