DC Counts - 2010 Census

Keep an eye out for those takers,

How to Recognize an Official Census Taker - DCist Now that it's May, census takers are hitting the streets to make personal visits to anyone who didn't mail back their 2010 census form. You'll likely see them around town, and in the event you didn't return a census form (or didn’t receive one), you'll also meet one at your front door.

As takers go door to door, an article on sampling & surveys. Warning - there is math involved.

Jordan Ellenberg - The census will be wrong. We could fix it. The agency tracking America's population should start correcting its errors.

Portraits of - the faces of the District and the 2010 .

The faces of D.C. A photo contest aimed at raising awareness of the 2010 Census drew hundreds of entries depicting Washington's many faces. The 51 winners of the Portraits of D.C. contest will be unveiled at an awards ceremony April 27 at Social, 1400 Meridian Place NW, and in May at the Walter E. Washington Conventi...

Phase 2 of the starts this weekend - please answer the door and be counted!

Census takers to return to homes where forms weren't sent back The 20 people huddled around six folding tables in a basement dance studio in Columbia Heights will soon fan out across the District on behalf of the census.

Nice shout out in Roll Call for and Portraits of DC - fun promotion!

Another Way to Count, One Photo at a Time - Roll Call If the U.S. Census Bureau used talented local photographers to take a sampling of the District in pictures instead of data, it might end up with the same results as the 2010 Census: Portraits of DC contest.