The Pros And Cons Of Census

It’s amazing how short it took to complete the long-census form. Thirty minutes, one siting and a cup of coffee to stay focus. It’s quiet a simple task to fill out the survey because the questions were straightforward and the examples for each question answered all the misconceptions I had if any about each question; however, what exactly is the long-form census and what is it used for? In my experience the long-form census is a survey used to collect data from the people of the country. The survey covers a wide variety of topics including household members, ethnicity, place of origin, education, income etc. I can split my thoughts on the completing the long-form census in three ways. Thoughts on the questions, thoughts on the data being collected …show more content…
Their response was that “you have to.” If the census form was not mandatory, I wouldn’t see people spending the time filling out all the questions that the census ask. It requires us to dig out statistical information about each person in the household. I wouldn’t want to find all the paper work required to find my exact income from each and every category , then add up everything for a total income. I would probably estimate and undershoot the amount of income my household makes. The census itself is just too much work for the reward it returns, but what exactly are the benefits of filling out the census. Well the census is used to gather data from certain parts of a community and it helps the government decide where to put their money into, whether it be education, transportation, etc. And these kinds of benefits are not personal benefits, it is benefits that are essentially invisible to us. There’s no way we can tell that the census form we filled help the government decide that our school needs money and because we’re not able to see the full benefits of our census being into work, I wouldn’t feel the need to fill out the census. Ideally if we were able to specifically see that our community was lacking in some aspects such as income and the government show us they realized this and add programs to help with our low income community the census form would probably be filled out more willingly. Another example would be if the community had a lot of elderly folks or soon to be elderly folks, the government would view the census data and conclude that the community is in need of better health care for the elderly, and spend their money accordingly. Showing that the community is lacking or exceeding in a certain aspect is probably not the best idea because the census form gives us the protection of anomalous. Because we’re protected, I would argue that