PLEASE NOTE: U.S. Census staff will be knocking on doors in Colfax County and throughout the United States in order to verify addresses and gather information on additional living quarters. Census employees will never, under any circumstances, ask for a resident’s social security number, bank account number, credit card number, or any other financial information AND will be easily identifiable by the official government badge around their necks. They also will NOT be collecting money in any form. More information about how to identify Census staff is listed below.
Message from U.S. Census Bureau:
2020 Census Information for Law Enforcement:
Colorado , A Message from U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters:
“In an effort to meet the Constitutional and legislative requirements to count the U.S. Population, in preparation for the upcoming 2020 Decennial Census, post enumerator survey operations will begin on January 16, 2020 and continue through March 30, 2020. Census Bureau temporary field staff will work in neighborhoods across the United States to conduct surveys using a laptop computer. Field staff will be knocking on doors in order to verify addresses and gather information on additional living quarters.”
Nationwide percentages:
Update Leave (UL):
This will occur in areas where the majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the physical location of the housing unit, or the mail delivery information for the housing unit cannot be verified. The purpose of the operation is to update the address and feature data for the area assigned, and to digitally link and leave a 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package at every housing unit identified to allow the household to self-respond.
Non-Response Follow up (NRFU):
This occurs in self-response areas where the Census did not receive a response. The operation will determine the status of the housing unit for non-responding addresses and enumerate housing units for which a 2020 Census response was not received.
Identifying a Legitimate Census Worker:
Every enumerator with the 2020 Census will have an official government badge around their necks, a 2020 Census shoulder bag, and either an iPhone or iPad to conduct their enumeration. Census employees will never, under any circumstances, ask for a resident’s social security number, bank account number, credit card number, or any other financial information. If someone claiming to be with the 2020 Census comes to the door asking for this type of information, residents should call their local police department immediately.
NOV. 18, 2019 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released the Mail Contact Strategies Viewer showing how the country will be asked to respond to the 2020 Census. Nearly every household will be invited to respond online, by phone or by mail to the census starting in mid-March 2020. Most areas—about three of every four households—will receive an invitation to respond online (or by phone), while the other households will receive a paper questionnaire along with an invitation to respond online. Regardless of which invitation they receive, all households that have not yet responded will receive a paper questionnaire by mid-April. This map also shows which households will receive English/Spanish bilingual invitations and questionnaires.
The interactive map illustrates the contact strategy to inform the public and partners of the Census Bureau’s plan to count everyone by geographic location for the 2020 Census. A decade of research and testing has determined the best way to invite everyone to respond to the 2020 Census.
Most households will first receive a letter asking them to complete the census questionnaire online with information about how to respond online or by phone in English plus 12 non-English languages. Areas less likely to respond online, approximately 21.8% of households, will receive a paper questionnaire along with the invitation to respond online or over the phone. Areas assigned to receive a paper questionnaire first have a low self-response rate to the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey (ACS), and have either low internet response rates, high population over age 65, or low rate of internet subscriptions.
In addition, the 2020 Census supports language needs across the country. All households will receive information about how to respond in 12 non-English languages online and by phone, and about 9.3% of households (or 13 million) will receive English/Spanish bilingual invitations. These areas were designated where 20% or more of households in a census tract (areas with about 4,000 households) need Spanish language assistance — defined as households that have at least one person age 15 or older who speaks Spanish and doesn’t speak English “very well” (based on ACS data). Most states (40 out of 50) plus the District of Columbia have at least some areas assigned to receive English/Spanish invitations. These areas may also receive bilingual paper questionnaires in the first invitation if they are part of an area determined to be less likely to respond online. Regardless of which invitation they received, all households that received bilingual invitations and have not yet responded will receive a bilingual paper questionnaire by mid-April.
The map released today focuses solely on the 95% of households who will receive their census invitation and/or questionnaire in the mail. It does not show the almost five percent of the nation’s households that will receive their questionnaire when a census taker drops it off at their home nor does it reflect the less than one percent that will be counted in person instead of invited to respond on their own. These special areas can instead be viewed in the Type of Enumeration Area (TEA) Viewer.
A downloadable Excel file is available, indicating the contact strategies assignments for each census tract. The tracts would follow the same boundaries as shown when a user zooms in on the map.
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If you would be interested in working for the census follow this link: https://2020census.gov/en/jobs/pay-and-locations.html?=undefined&state=New%20Mexico&county=Colfax%20County
Our local libraries are excellent resources for information during the Census2020. Visit any library and find assistance by using the computers to fill out the form online. If a person is vision impaired the library can assist you to call in to the census phone line, this service is offered in 13 different languages! You can complete your form at the library with an enumerator. Our local libraries are bases of operations for those who may be experiencing homelessness, people who may be traveling, military personnel, students, etc. Those who may not have access to a phone or internet can still be counted in the census with the assistance of a local library. Libraries in our area include Arthur Johnson Memorial Library located at 244 Cook Ave, in Raton; Carnegie Public Library located at 202 N Animas Street in Trinidad; Shuter Library of Angel Fire located at 11 S Angel Fire Rd, Angel Fire; and Fred Macaron Library in Springer, NM located at 600 Colbert Ave, Springer.
