Census Tracts (aka Tidbits)
DeSoto County, MS [corrected per comment] is gearing up for the Census but there are concerns looking ahead:
Some supervisors questioned whether the county’s GIS department could handle all the Census data, once it returns next year.
Officials decided to get estimates to see how much a planning consultant would charge to help analyze the data for the county’s redistricting plan.
The word from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is that Census awareness and expected participation is up since January based on a poll of among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines during the second week of March. 77% vs. 49% in January said they’d heard something about it recently. 87% now say they definitely or probably will fill out and return their forms, or have already done so, a six-point increase in likely participation since January. There’s age and education breakdowns, but nothing geographic.
- Pew
The word from Las Vegas, in an poll by Fox5 is that the letter saying that the census forms were coming was a waste of money. 93 percent of respondents to a Web poll told a FOX5 Web poll it was unnecessary to mail out notifications telling people they would soon be receiving their census forms in the mail. Fox did not report how many respondents there were.
- Fox 5
