This is the US census I believe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Community_Survey

If you don't send it back, they will come to your home. And they will interview your neighbors. On our street we were the only responders, and when the live humans showed up it was quite impressive. They had name tags, and signs on their cars.

The information from the census is very important, to get Federal aid for cities and states for elderly, disabled, and children.

A funny thing happened when the live interviews began. They had already been here once. Hubby returned home from work (he had a business audit) and one of these census workers approached him with her badge held out, so he whipped out HIS Federal ID and she jumped back! Then they both laughed.
She explained alot to him then, in fact. Since we have many empty homes in the whole neighborhood, the workers were interviewing everyone about the people who left, so they could figure out if they filled out a form from the location they moved to, etc. It is important not to overcount, or undercount, as you can imagine.

Holy moly!

That must be interviews in the millions!

Hubby says there are two versions of the Census... the short one which we returned, and the long one, which we did not receive.

Mel...did you respond to any Census yet? Here in Midwest it was in the early summer.

I would contact them,
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

Just to make sure this thing you received is not a spoof of some kind.
I would do this before returning it.

Oh it's completely real. There are blogs all over the internet on this thing. We received our census papers awhile ago, filled it out and the one thing I'm not sure about is that this envelope was addressed to Resident Apt 2.

I live in a two family private house. So is apartment 2 the upstairs apartment or the first floor apartment. The house I live in has a basement also.

So is this survey thing supposed to be filled out by the people on the first floor (street level), or upstairs on the second floor.

Thanks much

Melody

If it's anything like our census Melody, every household would get their own. They're compulsory here in Australia as well every 5 (I think) years.

As you have 2 households in your apartment block, check to see if the other family received the census forms, and if there's only one form, I'd suggest that you try to find out if everyone needs to fill one out, or if it's a random selection of residents. Maybe you were both supposed to get one, but only one arrived.

I'd say that apartment one would be the apartment on the ground floor; apartment 2 on the top.

I agree. Apartment 2 is on top floor, Apartment 1 is on ground floor.

Thanks VERY much for clearing something up for me.

Take care

Hope you are doing GREAT!!

Love ya

melody

When I filled out the short form, I informed them that there were 2 adults at this address and nothing more. I haven't gotten anything back from them