The Logistics of the US Census
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‘given that the country has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history’ fast forward 3 weeks and 6 million+ people have filed for unemployment. we’re living in a future history lesson. 2020 has been crazy to say the least, y’all stay safe out there 🙏
ya...it did NOT age well
I got paid $16.50 an hour as a census csr. And before that, I was also given health benefits with took 90 days to activate. To make up for it, I was paid an extra $4.50 an hour. So for 3 months, I made $21.50 to deal with grumpy people. It was great!
I forgot to mention I made $16.50 for being bilingual. English-only speakers made $15
Please save us
It didn’t even age a day lol
Plot Twist: This is actually the block where Wendover lives
Wendover is a place, and airport, in Utah.
If I remember correctly Sam Denby lives in Edinburgh
Mirza Ahmed If he is not AI he’s a person
Nobody lives in Grand Junction by choice
@@Connor_Herman haha true
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who gets excited for a census. Just that raw data and effort to obtain it is just incredible. I'm glad you also have a keen liking for the census.
Azivegu I do too
Is there no register for the citizens? In Germany they just count the people in the resident registration
v Nyggi some people aren’t citizens in the United States.
James Burke did a history-of-science documentary series in the early 1980s called "The Day the Universe Changed," and his episode about how the jaquard loom gave rise to automated census tabulation -- and thence to the modern computer -- is positively riveting.
@@vnyggi621
The U.S. counts all residents. And, it must be an direct count as well.
4:06 Not just satellite imagery, but also county land records and the database from the 2010 census. After comparing info, if some things didn't seem right to the software, then canvassers were sent out. I worked as an address canvasser for the census bureau in Central Florida last fall and the 8-week operation was mostly mobile home parks, developments under construction, and rural areas.
Also, transitory locations are enumerated on the official census day...April 1. This includes homeless shelters/camps, soup kitchens, nursing homes, and campgrounds (where people may live full time in their RV).
Idk why they dont just check drivers licenses, land records, death records, birth records, and the IRS. Then that would really just leave homeless people, and illegals to count.
@Up-a-Creek that's when you use the surveys to verify, or help clarify the data. And if you dont have a license you will have atleast a state Id or a school Id unless you're a sovereign citizen, or illegal. Just seems like it's more efficient, and effective.
Furthermore it's pretty hard to not pay taxes. There's income tax, property tax, road tax( sticker on your plate), and death tax. Plux if you arent paying taxes then you are probably homeless, or a child which ties into what I already said.
@@kylehayes6432 But the census also includes children that won't have a driver's license or state ID card, foreign nationals temporarily residing in the US, & the elderly whose IDs may have expired. Especially children may not live at their parent's home but could live with a relative. There's a lot of issues, so it just makes better sense to do it the current way. Most people (>80%) respond to the initial census, so the door-to-door phase isn't every household.
Also, although only the number of residents is required, the census asks many demographic questions that aren't collected as part of driver's license applications or tax databases.
@@afh7689 YouTubaholic Fair points. However A lot of the things your mentioned could all be solved with something I mentioned.
-Youre old, and your License expired?: Check death, and land records.
-You're a child?: Check birth records, and IRS (each house claims dependents, and they have your address)
-Your a foreign national?: I guess immigration would really be in charge of that but I'm sure you have plenty of records saying you're here. Odds are you have a passport or a green card or are somewhere in the record books.
Not to mention you could still send the surveys out to people. So 80% of people will hand over the info willingly. Then you use my idea to verify, and help fill in the blanks.
To be fair you are correct though about the religion, sexual orientation, race, etc.
Idk I suppose smarter people then me have already thought it through. I guess I'm okay with the government not having some central database that they could just easily draw whatever info they wanted via multiple platforms, agencies, and departments. You have to admit jobs, and bureaucracy are heavily involved in the process though.
We’ve waited 10 years for this
Who actually waits for this? Lol
@@xstrawarot me :)
@@xstrawarot me :)
@@xstrawarot me :)
@@pmmeurcatpics nerd
I was a census enumerator for the 2010 Census in Los Angeles. Our directives were to visit a nonrespondent household 3 times before it gets pushed up to our local office in Norwalk where they will then send staff that may or may not be accompanied by the sheriff. The sheriff is really just there as a bodyguard since there are some households that are straight up hostile to even being asked the one question that matters: how many people live at this address on April 1st?
There are many households that won't answer the other questions of the census and it takes a bit of effort to explain to them that the Census office, at a minimum, only needs to know how many people live there. All of the other questions were considered extra and basically nice to know questions. In fact, the respondent doesn't even need to give the Census their real names.
Multi-lingual enumerators like me are also occasionally given census forms for nonrespondent households that have language barriers so I ended up going to Torrance and Gardena a few times for that reason.
Anyway, enumerators are often given a badge and a cap and bag with the US Census logo on it. In the bag, we also have a "US CENSUS" sign to put up on the back of our car so that people know that we are on official business. The sign is useless against traffic cops though so enumerators still have to watch out for "no parking" signs and street cleaning dates. One of the most important items in the enumerator's bag is actually a laminated sheet with multiple languages for the respondent to choose from so that the enumerator can mark down which language the household uses and send the census form back to the local office for someone who speaks that language. I had one household that pointed to the Thai language on that sheet. Enumerators meet with their team leaders in the morning to turn in completed forms, timesheets, and receive new folders and assignments. Each folder corresponds to a census street block with a list of addresses already crossed out as done and census forms that correspond to addresses on the list that haven't been marked as completed.
Final note, once enumerators are out and about, they are federal employees and the census form they fill out for an address is the final/official one. This means that people who didn't respond by mail in time will have to speak with the enumerators. If you don't want to be visited by an enumerator, then make sure that you fill out your census form and submit it in a timely manner.
Regarding the video, enumerators also carry blank census forms in the event that they come across a household that isn't listed in the folder. I came across a couple of households that weren't listed in a folder so I had to write up the whole address by hand. There are also addresses that don't have any households because they are a business property. Some addresses actually corresponded to a different number because the number in question wasn't good (i.e. the number 444 isn't good in Asian neighborhoods). For whatever reason, the city still listed the old number even though the residents have formally changed the address number decades ago.
That said, if you see an enumerator at your doorstep, just be chill about it. Sometimes they're just there because they're looking for your neighbor and got the wrong house (condominium complexes with no signage) and sometimes they're just there because your submission was late. Unlike you, they are actually working 7 days a week because they have to schedule their outings based on YOUR availability even though they aren't allowed to work over 40 hours.
hentaioverwhelming awesome write and thanks for the info. Seems like it could be a dangerous job with potentially hostile households. Have census enumerators ever been hurt while doing the job?
@@yoyo2598 There are some that have been hurt, which is why one our instructions is if we see a "Beware of Dog" sign on an address that we are to mark the form with "beware of dog" as a comment and pass it back to our regional HQ so that staff with a sheriff are deployed. There are other instances of hostile households such as weapons or firearms being brandished. In those instances, our instructions are to GTFO of there, immediately call our group leader and give them the heads up on which address was overly hostile, write a note on the census form with the relevant information and pass the census form back to regional HQ so that multiple sheriffs with shotguns are sent to the address. If sheriffs show up with shotguns, the nonrespondent is pretty screwed.
People don't understand that census enumerators are FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, even if temporary. This is why the insignia and signage of the US Census Bureau is so important. Attacking a census enumerator is like attacking the mailman, the FEDERAL court will have a field day with the case, not to mention the STATE and MUNICIPAL courts waiting in line.
That said, in Los Angeles, the sheriff department doesn't fuck around with the Census. My guess is that some retired sheriffs also participate as census enumerators...
@@yoyo2598 I should clarify that it is pretty rare for an enumerator to get hurt but there are the occasional exceptions.
I'm gonna mark down like 40 people live in my 600 sq ft studio apartment. No sweat for the enumerator but fuck Uncle Sam.
@@whong09 If the regional office sees something like that, they might call your number or send someone over to verify. If it turns out that you were just BS-ing and a sheriff was with the staff, then you are not going to have a good day.
In my country, Argentina, we conduct the census in only one day. That day everything shuts down and people are expected to stay at home, waiting for the enumerator. I think your system is better.
Juan Nieto igual aca en Ecuador
@@sebastianbusch5013 congrats on using google translate*
RepublicanAsian muchas gracias, no es tan fácil como parece usar google translate
In Ireland the count takes place on the one day too, but we get the forms usually in a few weeks in advance. The enumerators come to collect them in the days after.
Completely shutting down your economy for a whole day? Even in such a small place as Hong Kong, that would be wayyy to high a price to pay for us.
Let’s see how long it takes him to mention airplanes
He didn’t. A whole Wendover video with planes doesn’t feel real
With planes or without planes?
It was implied with the aerial photos.
@@ionymous6733 he did talk about remote alaska villages and the only way in is on an airplane
@@ionymous6733 Not really, with the mention of satellite imagery.
I guess he wants to make the comment section mad :D
What an incredible operation. Here in The Netherlands everything is just registered with the municipality.
Hey jij ook hier, hoe bevalt het nieuwe zml seizoen?
@@Kris57277 hij jij ook hier zml verneukt de sammenleving iedereen denkt gelijk dat hij een expert is over een probleem, terwijl ze alleen de mening van lubach kopieren
Gekoloniseerd
@@bigchungus9673 hi hhgg hji hgi h
You mean you don't spend 16 billion doing it ?🧐 Savages
"math isn't my thing"
"ok, just take an online course on quantum mechanics or computer science"
Math definitely isn't a thing for Wendover. What kind of statiscians need number theory ? The heck are they counting now, people or primes?!
Kriophoros primpole
I'm so incredibly glad that the census happens on years with clean numbers like 2020 lol
In the UK we do it every tenth year but it's 11,21 etc. :(
Dang you jinxed it. Now the deadline will be extended cause of coronavirus, and it'll take place in 2021, 2031, 2041 etc. from here on out.
(not actually)
For some reason, so many countries do it on the year ending with 1, like 2001, 2011, etc.
@@muhilan8540 Well yeah if they started doing it in year 1 then that makes sense. (Remember there is no year 0, it went straight from 1 BC to 1 AD.)
Ali Hassan yeah but there aren’t any countries who have been taking censuses since 1 AD so that’s kinda irrelevant
USA : counting three hundred million people isn't exactly easy
India: hold my curry
1 person, 2 person, Muslim, 3 person....
Bluenevolent They can’t vote tho
Chill bro. It's not easy to count a 1,000,000,000 people, it's not easy counting 500,000,000 people, and it's not easy to count 100,000,000 people. Not saying that we have it the hardest, just saying its challenging. If anything saying it's difficult to count 300,000,000 is saying it's even harder to count 1,000,000,000 by proxy so dude was already throwing China, and India a bone if you think about it.
Kyle Hayes I don’t see where anyone asked
@@dayviduh Not sure what you are saying.
I worked as an enumerator for the 2010 Census, going around to non-respondents. It was a fascinating experience.
If you come back to this comments section, we'd love to hear some stories!
@Exoplanet Research I don't remember any door slams, but there were certainly some assholes. Others were nice or even invited you in. Most were neutral about the whole thing.
When it comes to non-respondents, in my experience I'd say a most of them were just people who didn't know about the Census. A small number were people's who responses didn't go through for some reason or forgot to respond.
will u work again in this yr? id love 2 know about the new info, thou im not american
@@tmfan3888 No, I'm far too busy to take on additional part time work.
In the 2010 Census, an enumerator took info about me from a neighbor and this info was wrong. How can an enumerator just believe what someone says about someone else? Will someone looking at my file on ancestry.com 70 yrs from now be confused? And what if my phone number gets leaked in this census?--I have too much spam calls as it is.
“The census is unconstitutional” - People who clearly haven’t read the constitution
Edit: Thank you for the likes guys. I’m finally UA-cam famous, even if it’s only from comments.
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@@EvanAviator well it's not that long.
@@EvanAviator Yes? It's a pretty short document lol
@@EvanAviator He could've read the parts of it about the census and would know just as much about the census as someone who read the whole constitution. Thats like arguing to someone thats an expert in physics that they dont know what they are talking about when talking about physics if they havnt studied every other branch of science...
The 1920 census kind of was, or rather how and when the reappointment of House seats took place (spoiler: it didn't).
Next video be like:
The logistics of an average student.
There are logistics to being a student?
@@michaelhope8899 There's a lot of cash flow involved.... at least out of the student's pocket, that is.
wrr, school not schooled nmw
I’d love that!
How to get school exemptions.
How to get the paperwork done by the civil servant.
How to get a bank loan.
How many formulas we learn.
How many books we consume.
How’s the ratio books/food in our finances.
How many students go partying, come back with unwanted babies, how many don’t succeed at the dating game until later in their 30ies.
How many students die at uni.
How to get rid of a teacher’s corpse.
Obviously no-one would learn a thing because everyone’s been a student, but it could serve as a comparison to see if his videos are exact ;)
Yes please Sam Wendover!
I worked on the 2016 Canadian census. I was second-in-command for an area that comprised about 15-20% of Winnipeg. The permanent census workers had already hired an enumeration staff for the entire city, so we didn't have to hire enumerators, but we were in charge of training those who'd be working in our area, supervising them, and collecting, organizing and shipping the census forms that they collected (as well as giving them lists of properties that they should visit to collect forms). Fortunately, more than 80% of people took the option to do the census online; it was only the ones who forgot, the ones who don't use computers, and those who had some objection to participating in the census, that we had to deal with. All in all, I think we collected in the neighbourhood of 3,000 forms (representing approximately 10,000 individual people) over the course of 2 months, which isn't a lot, but we were shooting for 100% compliance and those last stragglers do matter (nobody ACTUALLY gets 100% compliance, but you do what you can). My favourite thing to happen was when our enumerators (and us people in charge too...if our enumerators had an issue, we'd have to go collect the information ourselves) ran into the sovereign citizens of our fine city...they actually had signs posted on their gate warning members of "Her Majesty's Government" that they are sovereign and are under no legal obligation to Canada. Suffice to say...we never got census forms from them (it's actually a crime to not participate in the census, and you can get fined...but they rarely go after people who break this law). But it was kind of fun to argue with them...at first. Then it got frustrating. Weirdos.
Lol
My country is homogenous Korean, we don’t need a Census. We just judge based on election data
Since you ration food and schedule labor, you have a higher need for accurate data.
Who needs Census when you have Censor?
The answer to the census is already in your head, my dear supreme leader. You invented the census!
Makes me wonder though, what are the actual election results?
Wouldn't surprise me if Rocket Man has a pretty high approval rating without cheating the results because of brainwashing propaganda and a complete lockdown on dissidents.
Though i am sure even a completely fair election would be skewed because those who vote would fear repercussions from voting for the wrong (or Wong) candidate.
Kim Jong-un Kill everyone who didn’t vote for him
lol, I literally got this on the way to get my prints taken to become an enumerator.
Waiting on the email to go do that!
Same, I feel like this was not an accident on the part of Wendover Productions 😉😏😜
I'm waiting for my email. Hearing that there's a shortage made me feel better.
Jason Fischer Yeah, they said there was a shortage! You should get it soon.
How much you getting paid bro?
I'm a Census Enumerator, thanks for covering this Sam!
Waiting for the email to go for my fingerprints!
how do I get hired as one? I'm unemployed and would be glad to help
PlaystationMasterPS3 go to recruitment.2020census .gov
@@sujimtangerines Good luck! There will be plenty of waves for hiring. :)
@@PlaystationMasterPS3 The best part of the pay is the 57cents per mile driven. :)
When you can only find the stock footage for a single city block
Google Maps
Reilly Vejar google maps
Reilly Vejar although the drone footage may have been used first and then he located it on google maps maybe
Google Earth.
that wasnt even the city block tho
Out of everything happening this year, the 2020 census results are what I am most excited about
Alexander Kelly me too lol I applied to the census
Did they end up getting the legal resident question in?
Joren Mathews don’t think so, I’ll go check I just got it in mail today lol
This comment says it was submitted 2 months ago. I wonder when exactly because depending on when, it’s a very ‘interesting’ comment in hindsight! It’s 17 May now, was this 17 March? A bit earlier when things were not so crazy? Genuinely curious!
As a computer scientist, I would love to see their database design or their backend of how they store all this data. There are so many things to take into account. What an enormous job!
In Australia the census is done every 6 years and everyone has to do it on a particular date, at a particular time (usually like 6 or 7pm), however, the last census in 2016 was the first one done online and you can do it any time on that day BUT you have to imagine it's that particular time. This is because the census looks at how many people, including visitors, are on your property at that time so everyone can be accounted for.
Except our government somehow didn't plan for the amount of people and the census crashed
Is it a national holiday? What if you’re in the transportation industry (truck driver, train conductor, or shipping). That seems like a really inconvenient system.
I did mine online in March. If either of us had died or moved before April 1, I would have been lying.
2:35
"Given that the country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history"
Coronavirus: "hold my lime"
Released a couple weeks before lockdown. Ironic
Gov: "We wanna give you resources"
Them: "Cool!"
Gov: "You just have to take this free survey"
Them: "...We'll now I don't wanna do it"
Then you must NOT want the resources.
@@resync4622 Yeah, the US Gov makes around 3.5 to 4 trillion a year
@@silvertogold4064 Can you imagine how much more waste there would be if the government didn't know how many people lived where?
I think most people don't care about government resources. They only think it's paying welfare and collecting taxes, neither of which are based on population. They're very wrong, but that's the state of what most people think of the government.
"It's complicated due to having one of the lowest unemployement in recent history"
That part has aged so bad so quickly...
I live in Grand Junction... that’s my buddy’s neighborhood 😂
I'm sure it is.
Hello fellow Grand Junctionite
“I wonder how planes will be involved” - Me before the video
thats so true for many.
2020 March: Finding 500,000 temp workers isn't exactly easy, since the unemployment is all time low
2020 April: Hold my beer, Corona
The count for the homeless is actually much more in-depth and cities actually do something call a point-in-time census where they have 24 hours to count each homeless individual in the city. This affects federal funding for homeless population that it motivates cities to ensure they get an accurate count.
That’s kinda fucked up. Doesn’t that mean if they get an accurate count, depending on how much they get per head, could they be incentivized to keep people homeless for future census counts?
The cities don't do the PIT count the US Census Bureau does. It would be easier if the bureau allowed cities and counties to help considering they do HUD PIT counts every 2 years.
ilovecodemonkeys the money they get is to fund housing specifically so no there is not incentive to keep people homeless
You gotta do one on the Indian census & elections. It's even more of a logistical miracle.
I was a Census Enumerator in my country (Ireland)! This is incredibly similar to my country and brings back many memories! We had copies of the forms available in different languages and even cue cards to help people who may not have good english can fill it out! We only had 3 months to do the collecting and delivering :) We all had to go to every house in the country and hand deliver a paper form! But the biggest difference is it was everyone on the same day so a snapshot of that one day
You know it's a good day when Wendover upload
"Finding half-a-million temporary workers is, of course, incredibly difficult and it's even more difficult for the 2020 census given the country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history."
Ooooohhhhh....that did NOT age well.
dude you should make a video on how the Europe travel ban (or just travel bans in general) affect the airlines and stuff, that would be really neat!
Hi beluga
I feel must say - ive accidentally opened youtube and closed it in less than a second. In that time i've noticed this video's preview and in that half of a second i recognised this as a fresh Wendover video. That is a very good achievement.
He took the square state to simplify this 😂
Honda CRV everyone knows Wyoming doesn’t exist 😂
@Honda CRV Take a census of what in Wyoming? The cows?
Kansas fits the monitor better.
0:09 THIS is one block, of one city, of one state in the United States
For a moment I thought this was a Doug Demuro video
“...has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history...”
Why did you release this video so early Wendover? Couldn’t ya have waited for some time?
A regular person during December 31st, 2020: let's party to welcome the new year!
Me during December 31st, 2020: oh boy! the census results are coming out today!
8:22
two kinds of people in cold weather
when its december 4th and you havent responded to the census yet, and you get an email enforming you there is an enumerator in your walls
Sam: *not making video about planes*
Everyone else: "Wait, that's illegal"
I will make it legal!
Thanks for the time and effort
i wonder what the odds are someone lives in one of these particular houses and watches this video?
Off the top of my head:
A = Number of American Subscribers
B = % of Subscribers Who Watch All New Uploads
C = Population of That Suburb
D = Population of The United States of America
The minimum answer is ((A*B)/D)*C
Odds go up if that suburb is more likely to use UA-cam, more affluent/educated and thus more likely to view Wendover videos, and so on and so on. This is also only going off of subscriber; the number of actual viewers might be much more if this video goes viral.
Overall, though, I'd say there's a pretty decent chance. What is guaranteed, though, is that many, many people are gonna claim that it's their house in this video and reap the desired likes. That's the internet for you.
@@ShaunCheah You got one thing wrong though, you don't have to be a subscriber to see this video. You can replace A and B with "number of viewers".
Say 50 on that block, out of 300M, so 1 in 6 million as a rough lower bound.
@@ShaunCheah over 15% of UA-cam site traffic comes from america, but since the video is in English lets boost that number to 25%. so 25% of total number of viewers are most likely american, but 81% of UA-cam consumers are 18-25, and that reminded me that we also have to consider average american household size, which is 2.52 people. the us population is 327,300,000. 3,790,000 are babies though... so i dont know math super well but here goes... 2.52% of 327,300,000 = 8,247,960. 2.52% of 3,790,000 = 95508. 8,247,960 - 95508 = 8152452. 8152452 divided by 60, (the exact number of houses in the shot at 00:20) =135874.2 (chance one american view will be from one of these houses) total number of views: currently 308,706, so 25% of 308,706 = 77176.5, (total number of american views) im not really up on my lottery odds, but that means we have sold 77176.5 tickets to a game where the odds are one in 1352452.0, making the odds i think of someone winning around .56%... i think... which makes the chances of someone watching this and living in one of those houses about 1 in 2? we have a shot!!! just need to get twice as many views on the video and it will be mathematically probable!
oh shoot, probability that there are two UA-cam watchers in the same household, but still, that means we would need five times as many views, still not too horrible... what do you think? can this video get 1.5 million views?
As an ex sober house manager , these numbers are vastly under reported. I had no idea and no training on what to say to census employees , so left to my own confusion , fear of red tape, and volatility of house members I would report my sober house as a single family household with no more than 4 adults living there, while 7-20 people may occupy the home
All the dislikes are people who don’t participate in the census
I almost got hire to be a Census counter. They offerd $19 an hour but they said it was gonna be for only a month or 2 and I needed more permanent work
Wendover: The US population is expected to be around 300 Million by 2020
Coronavirus: Unless...
John Healy Not really, the US is pretty prepared and Trump responded pretty well to the virus
Yeah, I just meant it has a joke, Trump has fully prepared the US for the Coronavirus, unlike China which cant handle it
@@JohnSmith-oe5rx "Trump responded pretty well" What's your favorite flavor of Kool-Aid?
I was a census counter who went to people's houses. It sucked as a job. Most of the time, they were hostile to anyone knocking on their door. And a few times, I had a gun pointed in my face. As a college kid, I didn't last long.
Would love it if you do a video on South Korea's fight against covid 19. They are leading the world in technology and measures taken.
This is sarcasm right???
@@SKAOG21 no. SK did a great job compared to many other countries. One video was already done about China, so maybe one can be done on SK too.
@@deliciousnoodles5505 IDs say having housa ds of cases, especially the Daegu cluster isn't good. Singapore should be covered instead.
@@SKAOG21 You're not seeing the big picture. SK response has been aggressive and widespread, given what a huge population they have. They should get their own video. Give Taiwan, HK and SG a shout-out. You mentioned sg, but countries like Taiwan did a great job too.
Or just the whole thing in general.
I guarantee that video is coming eventually!
Saw this video last night.
Next morning, Census 2020 in my mail box.
Once in a decade opportunity.
I applied a couple of weeks ago. I received a call and now I’m excited to have my first Federal Job as an Enumerator for the 2020
Census.
Congratulations! And don't listen to inferior smiley face up there, any job that pays is a real job. Good on you, mate! =D
(But yeah also best of lucking finding a permanent position in 2021)
Shaun Cheah I forgot to mention I’m only a Senior in high school so I’ll be going to college this Fall anyways. Thanks for the good wishes!
:D I’ll be going to school by then so I think I’ll be fine.
I was an enumerator for a month in the summer of 2016 in Houston, Texas. They were using us to test new technology to count people. We had a cell phone that gave us a list of addresses to go to interview people. We could update that list if an address was not there in fact. I would have to interview whoever answered the door about the household and if they didn't answer than leave a flyer indicating our attempt and return or to go online and complete it. Many people didn't answer the door and some who did didn't want to answer the questions.
Fill out the census, y'all! it determines, among other things, how many representatives your state gets and how much funding you get from the federal government! There isn't going to be a citizenship question btw.
Damn, the citizenship question was going to ensure that California only gets its fair share of funding and representation instead of stealing from other states.
America,the only country where adding a citizenship question to ensure real numbers of people for funding and representatives triggers so many people it gets to be discussed in the Supreme Court of Justice. Even my backwards country does it. First world problems. As an immigrant its specially surreal to me.
@@ZontarDow So I decided to actually look it up. California receives almost the same amount of money per person in aid as it sends to the federal government in taxes. This is unlike Arkansas which receives about $7k more per person in aid than it sends to the the federal government in taxes.
@@erichimmelblau877 not really relevant given the issue at hand
@@MrDarcy9991 What L? So long as California is fairly represented in the census they get their fair share from the federal government. Pointing out that a different state is getting more then it pays in doesn't refuse my point in the slightest, it's nothing more the intellectually dishonest whataboutism.
"given the record low unenployment"
Covid-19 " hold my corona".
So interesting to me that this is even a thing! Where i live everyone is registered to the municipality and obliged by law to give notice if they move!
Edit: I should clarify that i've never heard of anyone getting in trouble because they were living somewhere else for extended periods.
@Ali Beli It sounds like a hustle honestly if you have to make an appointment. Here in Turkey we have a smaller division of municipal body called "mahalle muhtarlığı" could be translated as "neighborhood administrator". They have a pretty limited number of duties so their offices are almost always free and you could just walk up and get what you need done in like 10 minutes.
I’m employed as an enumerator for the 2020 census it’s lit and pays hella
How can you be an enumerator, sir? You've been dead for 67 years. Someone shot you in the head.
In 2010 the economy was so bad the census takers were very high quality. The census came in 3 months early and a billion under budget. LOL
Nice! My mom just retired from the Census Bureau after working at a Mathmatical Statistician for 43 years
I actually live in that green square that you zoomed into in grand junction i was like woah crazy
Totally
See, this is a type of video I absolutely LOVE. I'm not an American and it's the kind of topic I know, quite literally, nothing about. Top 5 channel, that includes you and your affiliates! Keep going, man
I would love for you to do a video of how Google maps was made.
OldReaver he mentioned it the satellites video
I remember when some lady pulled up to my house mid rainstorm to ask me census questions. It was weird and I didnt know what I was answering but I just knew it was government related so i went ahead and told her all my family’s names
For future reference, if you or your family member doesn't feel comfortable disclosing the names of those living in the residence, just say "John/Jane Doe" and they'll be on their way
Source: ex-enumerator
Or, you do it like Europe where a continous record of all changes of houses or people moving is made and you never have a census.
*special feature* pre-registered voters included
That would only answer one question, where they live.
It doesn't answer their race, gender, economic status, age or anything about them having children. Europe does their census just like the rest of the world, including the USA. I don't know why you're trying to prop up Europe for something you made up.
No idea what country you are from but there are censuses in Europe. Some countries are switching to combined strategies (asking a sample of the population + using registry data) but it is not universal and AFAIK no country is abandoning surveys altogether.
@@Alex632
In Germany the Standesamt is where you get married/register your marriage/divorce, every child(including gender/intersex... changing any of that is a hassle)(ethnicity is recorded anonymised) you can even register your church if they are supposed to collect tithing (churches choice up to 10% of your income) with payroll tax.
Private habits/interaction/contentment with civil services/offices are polled in representative segments not the total population.
@@Alex632 well, it's different in different coutries, but where I live, it does include all the things you mention (except "race", whatever that means). Also "Europe" does nothing, much like "Asia" or "Africa" doesn't. Some have cencuses, sure. Some don't.
My mom has been throwing out our census forums and I told her I’ll do it next time she gets one
2:35 "It's even more difficult for the 2020 census, given that the country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history" Hahahahahahahahahahaha
The park with the American flags and bridge pictured at 1:04 are near my neighborhood in Rochester PA!
2:38 well that aged well
"The country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history"
COVID19: *I'm going to end this mans career*
“It’s even more difficult for the 2020 census given the US has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history” that sentence didn’t age well 😂😂
I live in Denver Colorado, I love it!
2:34 aged well...
Census data is so interesting to read, so it's also really interesting to know how it's collected! When I was working on my family's genealogy I got to search through digitized census records all the way back to the first census of Upper Canada. You can learn a lot about how families grow and change and what the average number of livestock on a farm is. I got to fill out the most recent census with my parents which was really interesting, since it was online and I was just getting ready to move away from home for the first time. By the next census it will just be my parents living alone...
What about people in prison, do they get a specialized form? And what about people in jail? Is their residence considered the jail, or their actual house?
2:35 "Given that the country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history" that aged well....
At first I thought it was a joke, laughed, assumed it was an HAI video and then noticed the date of publication. Oh how things change!
Can we talk about how funny this stock footage is? 3:25
I’m not used to my city getting talked about in any context outside of local news. Honestly this is the most I’ve ever heard someone talk about Colorado outside of middle school CO history, even just as an example of any random US state.
Lucky! He mentioned my closest regional airport (not in my town, but in the town where I went to college) in the video about how airlines plan their routes, but placed it in the wrong country on the map.
“Given that the country currently has the lowest unemployment rate in recent history” - well that didn’t age too well.
Keep up the great work !
0:51 Puerto Rico is not coloured as a part of USA. The smallest mistake I have ever noticed.
Decoded. It’s a US territory, I don’t think they will be counted.
@@wtfistonicwater1120 they are counted. They are part of the New York region.
Señor Stalin well listen again to what he said States and territories
@@johanreillo8403 can I have the timestamp?
Señor Stalin same as above
I worked the Canadian census one year. It was amazing how many people refused to counted.☮️
They feel their privacy is violated. And there is good reason for this.
You know, in my country this information is just registered: who you are, where you live, where houses are located, etc
Not sure what you are trying to say here, as I bet similar processes are done there and in the U.S.
In Europe it's actually really common to have a civil register. You can barely do anything without being registered, thus making illegal immigration a lot more difficult and uncommon than in the US,and makes it so we do not have the need for such a census, as the government already knows where pretty much everyone lives.
I guess the US does this differently, due to the mindset that the government should not have this information registered?
"the US has the lowest unemployment rate ...
That is definitely true, even with the coronavirus
Anything involving planning: exists
Wendover: it's free real estate
“The lowest employment rate in...”
*Coronavirus has entered the chat*
“Oh...”
These videos are the marshmallows in my hot chocolate
then what is your hot chocolate?
Please do a video about the economics and/or logistics of COVID-19!
What if you're solo sailing on a small private sailboat headed to Hawaii....
Going Very slowly.
You don't exist
The kid from this town: hey that looks kinda familiar
Wendover: SIGN THE PAPER THANK YOU GOODBYE
"Counting 300 million people is difficult"
*Me in India:*
This is such a primal way of doing things you can easily automate everything using preexisting goverment records.
Nope. Not everyone is in a government database and the Constitution mandates the Federal Government do the actual count, state records belong to states, so unless you're asking for a Constitutional Amendment this is the way it *must* be done.
why don't they just buy all info from facebook?
Everybody gangsta until the clock says 11:60 on the 31st.
Wouldn't it be easier to have a computer system where information (like the current residence) of citizens and residents would be stored?
So the Constitution requires *everyone* be counted, not just residents, not just citizens but every human who lives here. "Residency" is often determined by the State and can have specific requirements that disqualify people. So you can't rely on any current database to get an accurate count of every person, as required. Don't worry though, *the census is definitely using computers to store the respondent information.*
@@x--.: Fair enough, but wouldn't it still make the census easier if a continuous count of most of the people existed all the time and then in the actual census you'd only need to count people who are for some reason missed in that count?
@@seneca983 It probably would but the US Constitution says 10 years, so it'd take a Constitutional Amendment to change that.
@@x--.: Surely the constitution doesn't prohibit a population information system? And surely it wouldn't prohibit using such a system to carry a portion of the census every 10 years?
@@seneca983 I am not a Constitutional lawyer but it does say "actual enumeration" -- so actually counting people, if the Feds decided to stop actually trying to count everyone who lives in the United States there would be lawsuits and if that new system left any people out it would have a tough time not being overturned by the Supreme Court (after all, even slaves were required to be counted in the initial census).
Wendover: "lowest unemployment in history"
US: "hold my beer"
How do they act during Coronavirus?
We're gonna have census here in Brazil this year too. But here, the statistic bureau will send people to count every single resident in the country. There is no online form. And Brazil is larger then the US lower 48 states in area, with a population of around 210 million.
2:39 if only we knew x''D
"Finding half a million temporary workers is difficult as the USA has the lowest unemployment in recent history"
That aged well!