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The Census Bureau Needs an Online Survey for Collecting Data

When I was back at home living with my parents as a married adult I had the unfortunate opportunity to be drug into a U.S. Census study.  The study total was completed over I think 3 years.  It actually followed me to my next residence in a different state.  Each quarter I would receive a phone call from a nice person that would ask me a series of very redundant questions and I gave usually the same answer from the quarter before.  Not a lot changed for our family.  As I spent this hour every quarter with a nice person on the phone I kept thinking to myself how nice it would have been if I could have filled out all this information on an online survey.  The online survey would have been accessible at any time and would have been a lot more convenient for me and my family.