# What if you don't get a Census form? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110 "2000-03-24T10:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Neenah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@Neenah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neenah)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/1 "2000-03-24T10:34:00Z")
Should I have gotten one by now? Everyone else in my family got theirs weeks ago, and I feel so left out. Is there someone I should call to request one? I want to be counted, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/2 "2000-03-24T11:07:00Z")
On Census 2000’s [FAQ](http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/faqquest.htm) page, click on the first link; there’s an 800 number for questionnaire assistance. Might see what they say. ---
**Author:** ![Neenah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@Neenah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neenah)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/3 "2000-03-24T11:40:00Z")
Shoulda known they’d have a website. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/4 "2000-03-24T12:20:00Z")
Do you want mine? Between the kid and dog, it’s pretty chewed up and has crayon marks all over it. I see a Waco-style siege of my residence by the Bureau of Census SWAT teams in the near future. * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Neenah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@Neenah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neenah)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/5 "2000-03-24T12:35:00Z")
I’ll take it. I want to be counted, tallied, and entered into the database. My four killer attack cats can handle the SWAT teams. Sure, they’ve got tear gas, but we have catnip! They’ve got grenades, but we’ve got hundred-mile-an-hour hairballs! Stick that up yer…computer. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/6 "2000-03-24T12:37:00Z")
If you don’t get a census form? Last I heard, either you have to leave immediately and relocate to Canada, or you don’t have to pay taxes anymore. One of those. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/7 "2000-03-24T16:36:00Z")
Good enough for me AuntiePam!! ::FedEx remains of Census form to Neenah:: _I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day…_ * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/8 "2000-03-24T16:42:00Z")
I didn’t get one either. And I filed independantly from my parents last year. Gee, the federal government must be idiots. Huh. Didn’t see that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/9 "2000-03-24T17:28:00Z")
Umm, SR? I think you are talking about tax forms, not census forms. The census only comes around once a decade, not every year. Agreed though, the gov’t seems to be full of idiots. Well, RTFirefly doesn’t seem too bad, but the conclusion about the idiots seems to fit my general observations. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/10 "2000-03-24T20:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, RTFirefly doesn’t seem too bad Thanks, Unc - from you, I’ll take that as high praise. 😃 SR: where do you live - with your parents? In a dorm? In a house with a bunch of other people? In an apartment by yourself? Whether you should have seen a form depends on your living situation. If you live in a house or apartment, there will be one form for the entire household, even if it’s not exactly a traditional household. If you live in a dorm, they’ll be by to enumerate you with individual forms sometime in April. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/11 "2000-03-25T01:16:00Z")
Neenah, you DON’T get a census form. They are sent to the ADDRESS. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neenah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@Neenah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neenah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-get-a-census-form/15110/12 "2000-03-25T01:37:00Z")
Handy, thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have my mailbox call the folks at the Census Bureau immediately to request one.