Census door knocking starting in southern Indiana July 23

Census door knocking starting in southern Indiana July 23

Expect to have a visitor soon.

Over the next few weeks --- census door knockers will soon fan out across the state.

44news reporter marisa patwa - takes a look at why you should answer the call.

Census day 2020 was all set to take place in april -- and then covid-19 hit."

Now -- things are picking back up -- door knockers starting july 23rd target the homeless population "we'll facilitate and set up venues where they can come out -- folks can come in and have an orderly fashion certainly with the social spacing and the masks and can come in and actually fill out the census on the laptop on cite where we bring it to them."

As of wednesday -- indiana overall response rate is at 66 percent and dubois county at 78 percent--the highest in our area... vanderburgh at 66.- but committee members say they are hoping for more responses "there are some pockets and some neighborhoods in evansville that's below that average and that's what gives us some calls for concerns."

Door knockers of knocking)) will wear a mask and stay out of the home.

But with so much personal information needed to fill out the form -- it not just physical safety that is at risk -- "if they're asking maybe for banking information, social security or if they tell you there is some type of fee associated -- then you know they're fraudulent."

While filling out the form might seem tedious -- it's essential..

It's like you have a slice of the pie and if we don't get a full and complete count well then that slice goes somewhere else -- and then we miss that opportunity."

The forms are due in october reporting in evansville marisa patwa 44news.

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