If the Census was legit the questions they would ask would be:
Where are you currently living?
How many people are in you household including yourself?
How many children in the household?(0-21) (only if they are attending college)
How many adults in the household? (21+) (18+ if they aren't in college)
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being the worst 10 being the best)
How well is your local goverment working for you?
What kind of eduaction is your child recieving?
How good are the elementary schools in your district?
How good is your local highschools in your district?
How well is your postal service performing?
How well is the public transpertation in your area?
How good are the side walks?
How well is the highways during the winter?
How well are the streets paved?
Have you had any social services in the past 6 months?
What service has social services provided you with?
Are they helpful?
How long do you think you will be on the social services programs you are currenlty on?
Have things improved since you have been on social services?
How well is your local social services offices performing?
Is there anything you want to see done diffrently in the area your living in?
How would you desribe your quality of life?
Is there any other public services that you think you could benifit from? If so what are they and how?
Are you married or single?
Do you have any children?
Are you a legal gardian? Is so of how many children? What is the relation?
What is your race and ethnicity? (OPTIONAL)
What is your gender? (OPTIONAL)
What is your age?(OPTIONAL)
I feel like this would be a legit cenus with the real purpose of helping people and serving people. This is also a way of checking the population numbers. You dont need to know the race and ethnicity of people to "really" help people. But you do need that information to keep people living in underpovished areas, or keep certain areas underpovished. Just something to think about. I also feel like I put these questions in order of importance.
This is great, Tibrisha! Very creative way to re-envision the census. It seems as though your census focuses more so on class and economic issues as opposed to racial and ethnic categories and asks people to reflect on their actual experiences, not just we can infer about their experiences based on what boxes they check.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I feel these questions are more appropriate for really helping people. Also since the governments "real" goal is for "equality" and all racism is is the distribution of power and wealth.(*which they claim everyone has equal access too.) I feel that my census survey would really be making this possible. :D
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