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03/19/2009
Census Workers To Begin Knocking On County Residents\’ Doors Beginning the First Week in April
Beginning the first week in April, the U.S. Census Bureau will be sending out address canvassers into Santa Fe County as a part of early operations. This workforce will walk or drive through neighborhoods to check that all addresses are in our database when they deliver the questionnaire in March 2010. This early operation is vital to ensuring a complete and accurate count.
Many people do not realize that the Address Canvassing operation occurs as much as a year ahead of the official Census day on April 1, 2010. Address Canvassing is the first large field operation for the 2010 Census and it is designed to identify all housing units and other living quarters. Liters will use hand held computers with maps on them to verify and list structures, including the collection of GPS coordinates for each location.
All information collected by Address Canvassers and other Census employees is kept strictly confidential and cannot be shared with any other persons, institutions, or agencies.
For more information about the 2010 Census, visit www.census.gov. The US Census contact person for Santa Fe County operations is Veronica Reyes, 505.688.0673.