If you have not returned the 2010 U.S. Census form you received in the mail in March, you have one more chance, local census officials said.
Military personnel have been specifically encouraged to return the census forms and be counted.
“The goal is to count everyone living in the United States,” said J.D. Dallager, head of the Colorado Springs Census Committee.
The national mail participation rate was 72 percent in 2000, the first increase in returns in three decades. To date, 65 percent of households nationwide have mailed back their census forms, according to the U.S. Census Web site.
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