Filling out Census 2010 for your Boarding School Student

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<p>OK, I did the footwork for all of us boarding school parents with regards to how to fill out the 2010 Census.</p>

<p>As you may have read the instructions you may have noticed that it said:</p>

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<p>I called the toll-free phone number on the questionaire, made it through the IVR (how aggravating) and got a live human agent and asked if this applied to boarding school students.</p>

<p>Her answer was that all students living away at schools below the college level including Bureau of Indian Affairs schools should be included at their PARENT’S HOME ADDRESS.</p>

<p>Feel free to call and confrim, but her answer sounded like she was reading from a script.</p>

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<p>You must have read my mind. I just asked my husband what to put down for our S.</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting this. I was wondering too.</p>

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<p>Thanks, goaliedad, for sharing this tidbit. I’m sure I would have some day gotten around to filling out that form. ;)</p>

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<p>Why did you have to check? I’ve already checked other. :)</p>

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<p>Other???</p>

<p>I’m talking about the answer to Question 1 - How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?</p>

<p>Just include your boarding student at his/her home address (depending of course upon custody for those divorced families) when counting how many people live at your address.</p>

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<p>Oh… I thought you were referring to the question about whether the person sometimes live or stay somewhere else. I choose yes, and marked for another reason, because none of the options applied. Didn’t occur to me not to count her as part of my household.</p>

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<p>i checked “college housing” thinking that was the closest one. Well, too late to change. The envelop has been sealed.</p>

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<p>Thank you for checking, Goaliedad. I was just about to ask CC. “Other” would have been my choice.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I did it right, and did NOT check “other”, but that’s probably because after a year and a half I’m still in denial that she doesn’t live under my roof all the time!</p>

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<p>It would have been nice if the boarding schools would have passed out advice on how to fill out the census to the parents. As much as they’d like to claim or kids, they are still ours.</p>

<p>I personally had this problem with the “other” box in the 2000 census. I was living in temporary housing at a new job in a different state than my family waiting for our new home to close and checked that I sometimes lived somewhere else (some weekends) for “other” reasons. So on a personal basis, the Census is a reminder of those painful periods of separation.</p>

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<p>I actually am working for the Census this year, and I specifically asked that question at my training. We were told NOT to count kids living at a boarding school as the enumerators evaluate a boarding school as a “Group Quarters”, and information is taken as to the number of students who reside there during the school year. Thus, they will be counted twice if you put them on your home census form.</p>

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<p>Too late. I mailed it - I never even checked the ‘other’ box at the end. I guess there is two of him now…</p>

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<p>Well, more tax money and representation for the Commonwealth of Mass from the way I did it, I guess. Good. ;)</p>

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<p>^^True!!!</p>

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<p>Lemonade- counted twice here too. Let’'s hear it for the Commonwealth!</p>

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<p>For those interested, I finally found the web page at the Census site that provides details on how to categorize residency:
[Residence</a> Rule And Residence Situations For The 2010 Census](<a href=“http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/resid_rules/resid_rules.html]Residence”>http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/resid_rules/resid_rules.html)</p>

<p>I selected other as residing somewhere else as well. Did not include my daughter as she is in college, but she’s checking other as well for residing somewhere else as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the link, ZBMom2. From the link…</p>

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<p>^^Very interesting. Not what enumerators are trained to do.</p>

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<p>Seems very conflicting. Why should the state in which my son attends college be allowed to count him when he cant vote there, cant serve on a jury there, cant get a drivers license because he isnt considered a resident, doesn’t pay taxes to when he works, etc.?</p>