Reply #29: They'll have someone call you and offer to help fill it out

[lunatica]

This is what the census takers are being hired to do. First they have to tally up the responses and then they will call you to help out. They're not out to punish anyone. They really want the information. You'd be surprised how many organizations and statistics users rely on the Census to get the large and small pictures of demographics, population growths, population shifts and racial data. Statisticians use the data gathered all the time.