Over 36,000 housing units on Guam. Hundreds of jobs at peak. Thousands of questionnaires picked up by census workers within a 5-week period. Over 1,400 blocks covered. The questionnaires will contain instructions asking respondents to complete the form for their household and hold it for a census worker to pick up.
Census takers visit housing units to pick up the completed forms.
If a household does not complete the Advance Census Report or does not receive a form in the mail, enumerators will conduct an interview at the household using a questionnaire designed for personal interview situations. Close LCO and begin data processing. Every household will receive a form which asks about a variety of subjects, including name, sex, age, relationship, education, ethnic origin or race, language spoken at home, employment, disability, housing tenure, and value of home and monthly rent - and takes approximately 41 minutes to complete. Every year millions of dollars in federal and local funds are awarded based on census numbers. When there is a natural disaster such as a typhoon, census data can aid efforts by providing estimates of the total number of people in each block.