A census enumerator has to know more than just how to count — she has to be a bit of a diplomat, too. Some people just don't like to stand up and be counted. Take it from Edward S. Zelazo, district ...

Norbert Nez is worried about the census. A self-described map enthusiast, he took a job with the Census Bureau in 1990 as an enumerator fresh out of college and eager to find a decent-paying job. Nez ...

With just days until the Trump administration says it will end counting for the 2020 Census despite a court order to keep it going, enumerators across the country are facing confusion and conflicting ...

The other evening a census enumerator knocked at my front door. She was hang-tagged and masked, a clipboard in her hands, and she had questions about the residents of an adjacent property. I wasn’t ...

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I looked up, doing what I was told at Honolulu Census office in March of this year, where my picture was being taken for an official Census ID. About four months later, I grimaced as a saw my ID for ...

Please hear my confession, for I am a shaky, silver-haired old sinner. In August, I was sworn-in as a U.S. Census Bureau enumerator. In the course of fulfilling my duty, I violated many rules of civil ...

It was – but not how she thought it would be. Twenty-two years ago, the 45-year-old New Salem, Pa., woman had worked for the U.S. Census, confirming and mapping residences for the 2000 Census. It was ...