Can a census bureau employee ask me questions on a college campus?

Does the national Census Bureau send employees to college campuses for surveys? Or is this a scam? What should i ask of the person to make sure this is real. Please logical and real answers.

Can a census bureau employee ask me questions on a college campus?
No, absolutely. All USCB employees will have ID and you can ask to see it. Secondly, you are considered (if you are living in a dorm) as occupying "group quarters"





I am pasting an answer regarding this from the US Census Bureau:





Yes, you can find the latest estimates of the population residing in group quarters (e.g., convents, prisons, college dorms, barracks, and nursing homes) on our population estimates site. On the home page, click on "Estimates" and then download the entire data set. Look for the group quarters population estimates under the "County Population Data Sets." Annual population estimates are given for the nation as a whole, states, and counties.





In the population and housing census, we gather data on the type of group quarters people live in. You can find group quarters data in varying detail in any of the four summary files from Census 2000. The most detailed data on type can be found in Table PCT 16 of Summary File 1; the PCT 17 tables provide age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin detail for this population by type. You can access the Census 2000 Summary Files in American FactFinder; click on "Data Sets."





Later this year, we will have group quarters data from the 2006 American Community Survey.





For a detailed discussion of the group quarters population, see Appendix B in the technical documentation for any of the Census 2000 Summary Files.








Best wishes and hope this helps. But BE CERTAIN TO ASK FOR AN ID!!!!
Reply:Whoever approached you is not from the federal government. A lengthy document (in the year of the census, 2010) will be sent to your home. Everyone is asked to fill out and return. About 1/10 of 1% of those will be selected randomly for an even lengthier in-home interview.





An ID'ed employee is sent out and asks permission. You are not required to submit, but it is helpful to the government.





Under NO circumstances does the US send people to campuses for a census count. I hope you didn't give this goof your social or your girlfriend's ph#.