Why did the census form have room for only six people?
The Census Bureau decided to adopt a six-person questionnaire for Census 2000, which would apply to both the short and long-form questionnaires. Planning estimates put the number of mailback households with seven or more persons at slightly more than one million households versus about four million households with six or more persons. Respondents with more than six person households can record the names of the other people on the last page of the D-1 or D-1 (UL) form. The Census Bureau checks this page for names and will call the household two to three weeks later and ask for the census information for those people.
The Census Bureau decided to adopt a six-person questionnaire for Census 2000, which would apply to both the short and long-form questionnaires. Planning estimates put the number of mailback households with seven or more persons at slightly more than one million households versus about four million households with six or more persons. Respondents with more than six person households can record the names of the other people on the last page of the D-1 or D-1 (UL) form. The Census Bureau checks this page for names and called the household two to three weeks later and ask for the census information for those people.
