Ten questions in ten minutes.
"There will be no long forms like there were in 2000 where one in six households received a long form that took about an hour to complete," says Buckberry.
Senior City Planner David Buckberry says even though the 2010 census will take less time to fill out many Americans consider the questions invasive and feel more reluctant to participate in the survey this year than in 2000.
"The questions are the number of people living in your house, the age, the race, ethnicity, the home ownership. They're all based upon, they're either approved by congress or a result of a Supreme Court case," says Buckberry.
According to Buckberry you can run, but you can't hide.
"We would encourage people to answer all of the questions so they will not be called by the Census Bureau or if they have to have a census enumerator come out and actually visit your home to go through those questions," says Buckberry.
The main purpose of the Census determine the correct amount of political representation for a particular area based on population.
"It's very important particularly in our rural areas where we're having declining population that we get everyone counted. It's also important in terms of federal funding and for general economic development," says Buckberry.
Buckberry says your responses will remain confidential for 72 years and no other government agency besides the census bureau will have access to them.
