US Census launching rural count

Hand Delivery of Census Questionnaire launches in rural Texas
Many rural Texans will begin receiving their 2010 Census forms this week as trained Census workers begin the hand-delivery of a million questionnaires to households without numbered street addresses and to those in other areas, such as the coastal areas ravaged by hurricanes and the colonias along the Texas-Mexico border.
Census workers hit the country roads starting March 1 to begin the first major operation of the 2010 Census: the enumeration of an estimated 25 million rural residents across the country and almost 4 million in Texas. The operation runs through the month of March and marks the beginning of the 2010 Census questionnaire delivery. Although it will cover almost two-thirds of the geography of Texas, almost 90 percent of Texas’ 8.2 million households will likely receive the Census questionnaire by mail, the least expensive mode of delivery, around the third week in March.
“We’re going to bring it right to your door,” said Gabriel Sanchez, Dallas Regional Census Director. “It will either come in the mail or we are going to take the extra step of delivering it in person.”
In Texas, the so-called update enumeration will involve mobilizing perhaps 6,000 enumerators and support staff to cover the four-week operation. They will deliver questionnaires to more than 1 million Texas households.
Census Day is April 1, the day that the law requires you to be counted at the address where to live and sleep most of the time. The Census is mandated by the U.S. Constitution.