I just filled out my Census form and I have to say it was fairly painless and simple. The short form (pdf) really only asks about age, ethnicity and other residences. If anyone has a long form (now called the American Community Survey), please let me know your experiences filling that out.
The question concerning residence can be a bit tricky these days with so many people having multiple residences, children who live on their own but visit home frequently and couples who live togetherbut also maintain separate residences.
Jared Lander is the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics a New York data science firm, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming meetup and the New York and Washington DC R Conferences and author of R for Everyone.
