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by devwastaken 1556 days ago
Yes, 2000's my mistake. A relative of mine did this in 2000's and before. It was quite invasive, requiring information about the number of types of rooms in households and plenty of other information people were not comfortable giving.
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The solution to this is to not ask, and instead aggregate this data from open sources like the local tax assessor, or closed paid sources like the MLS or similar real estate transaction corpus.

This accomplishes whatever the objective is without putting census takers in danger due to unruly/belligerent interviewees.