Stealing a line from the challengers’ (census workers in Tacoma) email, “Please tell everyone you know – colleagues, co-workers and clients – about the challenge and ask for their help to put a whooping on Tacoma by filling out their Census form and mailing it back as soon as possible.”
There have been many inquiries about what to do if clients, friends, family or yourself have thrown the census form away or never received it in the first place.
Here are a few things you can advise people to do to make sure they are counted in the 2010 Census.
1. Wait until early April to see if you receive a replacement form. Not everyone will, but if you are in a neighborhood that had a low mail-back rate in 2000, you might.
2. Pick up a Be Counted form, a slightly modified questionnaire that will ask for your address (since there’s no bar code to tie the form to your home). Go to www.2010census.gov, click on Be Counted sites in the “Need Help with Your Form?” box and enter your ZIP code to find locations near you.
3. After April 11, you can give your responses over the phone without providing the unique code on the lost form. Cal toll-free tol 1-866-872-6868 for help in English or the following numbers for help in other languages.
Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA):
· English – 1-866-872-2010
· Chinese: 1-866-935-2010
· Korean: 1-866-955-2010
· Russian: 1-866-965-2010
· Spanish: 1-866-928-2010
· Vietnamese: 1-866-945-2010
· TDD (Telephone Display Device for the hearing impaired): 1-866-783-2010
