Census. I can talk census. I actually worked as a census taker for the 1990 C. I can promise you, that we were not encouraged to be creative. Before we went out we were given a list of non-responses to probable homes. (In other word...before the census count started preparitory work was done.) The PUD electrical accounts were a source of home sites. Planning commission... don't know all the rest. We had to visit nearly 300 houses in a series of developments because someone got the wrong zip code for 'em and all the forms were returned as undeliverable. In some developments the street address (PUD) as actually a light post. Our instructions were get it from the horses mouth. I did interview the teen-age son because one parent was asleep and the other at work. I did go to a neighbor for information because this one house just wasn't answering. (Neighbors are allowable but not encouraged). Turns out the husband and wife both died with in days of each other and the grown kids just couldn't handle it. So the house was maintained etc. The long form was numerically figured. Every so often someone got a form that took nearly 45 minutes to fill out. The short form I could do at the door...but I sat at the kitchen table for that long one. I got a bonus everytime I added a family within my area. I got travel. and I had to produce so much work...or it was good bye... I did do one call back on the phone...somehow I missed a square. Darilee