Take 10 minutes to fill out your 2010 Census form and
mail it back TODAY. If 100% of households mailed back
their forms, taxpayers would save $1.5 BILLION dollars.
Let's all do our part and mail back our forms!
2010 Census National Participation Rate:
72%
The Mail Participation Rate is the
percentage of forms mailed back by households that received
them. The Census Bureau developed this new measure in 2010,
in part because of the current economy and higher rates of
vacant housing. The rate excludes households whose forms
were returned to us by the U.S. Postal Service as
“undeliverable,” strongly suggesting the house was vacant.
We will still follow up on all these housing units to ensure
everyone is counted.
Mail Participation Rate is a higher
number than the Mail Response Rate we have
used over the last decade, but it is a better measure of
actual participation and therefore an easier goal to achieve
when residents mail back their forms. In 2000, the
national Mail Response Rate was 67% and the
comparable national Mail Participation Rate
was 72%. The Mail Response Rate is important to help us plan
for the important door-to-door workload that begins in May
during which we visit all households that have not returned
a census form
* The rates displayed are the rates achieved by Tuesday,
April 27, 2010, prior to the cut-off for door-to-door non
response follow-up operations. Final rates will be posted in
the fall and will include late mail returns
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