With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Friday, April 16, 2010
Author: ANDRES VIGLUCCI, aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com
How hard is it to count everyone in South Florida, as the U.S. Census aims to do?
Just follow the canvassers from the community group Florida New Majority as they fan out across hard-to-count minority neighborhoods in Miami, engaged in one last push before Friday's mail-back deadline to get the recalcitrant and the procrastinating to return those all-important 2010 Census questionnaires.
Clad in yellow polos, lime-green ''Yes We Count'' bags slung over shoulders, the canvassers contended with snarling dogs and locked gates in Brownsville. In Allapattah, they had to spot the converted garage at the single-family home or the hidden unit in the rear where someone may be living. Doors lacked knockers or doorbells, and at many no one answered.
There was the Nicaraguan immigrant who confessed to canvasser Oswaldo Ramos she had ''no idea'' how to fill out the 10-question form. The head of a family of six who said theirs got accidentally thrown out. The Cuban-American man who said he was moving and had not received one.
Posted By: Ayanna Spikes
2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.
VIGLUCCI, ANDRES. "2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.." Miami Herald, The (FL) 16 Apr. 2010,: B1. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.
How hard is it to count everyone in South Florida, as the U.S. Census aims to do?
Just follow the canvassers from the community group Florida New Majority as they fan out across hard-to-count minority neighborhoods in Miami, engaged in one last push before Friday's mail-back deadline to get the recalcitrant and the procrastinating to return those all-important 2010 Census questionnaires.
Clad in yellow polos, lime-green ''Yes We Count'' bags slung over shoulders, the canvassers contended with snarling dogs and locked gates in Brownsville. In Allapattah, they had to spot the converted garage at the single-family home or the hidden unit in the rear where someone may be living. Doors lacked knockers or doorbells, and at many no one answered.
There was the Nicaraguan immigrant who confessed to canvasser Oswaldo Ramos she had ''no idea'' how to fill out the 10-question form. The head of a family of six who said theirs got accidentally thrown out. The Cuban-American man who said he was moving and had not received one.
Posted By: Ayanna Spikes
2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.
VIGLUCCI, ANDRES. "2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.." Miami Herald, The (FL) 16 Apr. 2010,: B1. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.
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