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This year’s census will provide new information in part because of changes to the survey. For instance, this year for the first time respondents may report being married to a same-sex partner; in prior censuses, these statistics were “corrected” by forcing one member of the pair to identify as male and the other as female, according to Nancy Krieger, a professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard School of Public Health. This census may therefore provide the most accurate count to date of how many same sex couples...
Respondents have been able to select multiple ethnicities since the 2000 census, but Hochschild said she expects more people will take advantage of the change this year...
...question 2010 Census—reduced to just seven questions for college students—reached mailboxes across the country last month, but just began to arrive in Harvard undergraduates’ mailboxes yesterday. “People should be counted where they live and sleep most of the year,” the form states, and for most Harvard undergraduates, that place is Harvard...
...city’s effort began in September of last year with the formation of the Cambridge Complete Count Committee, a group comprised of city management staff and leaders from different community organizations...
Tests for people attempting to join the Complete Count local liaison group have been conducted for over a year on a rolling basis, according to Waldon. The group’s key roles have been to publicize widely that the census is coming, that the census process is easy, that all collected data is confidential even to other government bureaus, and that an accurate count is crucial for the well-being of community programs and services...