Oklahoma lags in Census mail participation rate
The mail part of the Census for 2010 has ended, and the results aren’t pretty for Oklahoma.
The U.S. Census Bureau said today that Oklahoma’s mail participation rate came in at 66 percent, down from 69 percent in the 2000 census. You can check out a Google map of the latest participation rates at the Census’ Take 10 site. Here’s the latest map of the mail participation rates by county in Oklahoma:
Nationally, the mail participation rate this year was 72 percent, unchanged from 2000, the Census said in a news release. Oklahoma’s participation rate of 66 percent in 2010 put it in the bottom tier of states, along with Louisiana, West Virginia, New Mexico and Alaska.
Wisconsin lead all states with a mail participation rate of 81 percent. It was followed by Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan.
The next phase of the Census is the home visits by Census enumerators. They will begin showing up this weekend:
The nation’s response helps pave the way for the next phase of the 2010 Census: the deployment of 635,000 census takers across the country who will go door to door to obtain census responses from all remaining households. The temporary census workers are in training this week and will begin obtaining census responses this weekend.
–Paul
Written by Paul Monies
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I didn’t receive a census form. So I called them. I got referenced to another toll-free number. I call the second number. That one referenced me to the first toll free number.
So, I click a bunch of times and finally get a real person.
She tells me she can’t send me a census form without the code number found by the label on my census form.
I said, “Ma’am, if I had the census form, why would I need you to send me one?”
She said, “Sorry. I have to have that number before I send you a form. Please give me the code number by your label on your census form.”
I hung up.