Tag: Census

While watch­ing the NCAA bas­ket­ball tour­na­ment, I notice the PSA’s for the cen­sus say that we should fill out the cen­sus form this March. But the cen­sus form asks for the name of the peo­ple that were liv­ing here on April 1, 2010.

It does not ask who will be liv­ing in this dwelling on April 1?, it asks who WAS liv­ing in this dwelling on April 1?

So we are to pre­dict the future in the past tense.