How To Answer Census Questions?

Are citizens required by law to answer census questions?

• Answer:

  By law you will have to respond to census. Article I, Section 2 of the US Constitution gives Congress the right to ENUMERATE the number of citizens in order to apportion members of congress: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct." Enumerate means "to count, or determine the number of". Congress can COUNT the number of citizens so you are required to answer the first question -- how many people live at this address. There are ten "required questions in the 2010 US census. Title 13 section 221 of the United States Code requires your response. Title 13 also requires that the Census Bureau keep respondents' answers confidential and uses them only for tabulations that do not reveal any personal data about individuals or households. Census Public Affairs Specialist, Robert Bernstein states that fines are rare and no one was fined during the 2000 Census.