Questions about the US census?

Question

I want to find out what an actor listed as their religion in the last census. Is there anywhere to find someone's answers from the most recent census? Would it be free or would I have to pay?

Answer 1

Census info is strictly confidential. They will not provide you with who answered what.

Also the census is done with sampling methodology, so your actor may not even have been chose to fill out the full survey. I don't even know if that question is on there.

Answer 2

The latest census records available to the public are the 1930 census.  The law prohibits opening them for public use for 70 years. The original basis for this was that the person would be dead by the time it was released. With people living longer you will find people living today who were listed in the 1930 census. Census questions vary from one to the next and I don't remember if religious preference was one of the questions in 2000.

Answer 3

Why making a census with strictly confidential information so no one can know jackshit about it? what's the use of this?

justify salaries from a bunch of government leaches?

Answer 4

I find it absolutely INCREDIBLE that ANYONE thinks that personal data from the census should be made public.  Anyone who thinks that should publish ALL of their own personal data on the internet.  I'll bet their opinions would change REAL FAST if they were forced to do that.

Sea Link...you can get all kinds of census data on the internet (pretty much all of it)...you simply can't get it attached to people's names.  It boggles me that people can be this ignorant about the census.  Did you even try a single Google search?