Census crew leader to WaPo: "only 2% who are trouble makers"

I'm a Census Crew Leader with 15 enumerators working under me in Michigan and I read your post and link to the WaPo with great interest. I guess your main question is, is this another example of people being fed up with an overly intrusive government. Here is my take.

80% of questionnaires have been returned by households in our state. Of the remaining 20% half are not returned because they went to unoccupied homes. That leaves 10% of which 7% to 8% cooperate and are pleasant and helpful. That gives us only 2% who are trouble makers. This is only anecdotal and speculative information on my part but my guess is this last two percent is made up of the criminal, antisocial, mentally ill or uninformed parts of our society (you would be shocked to learn how many people have no concept what the Census is).

Yes we do get people who want to speak to me as a supervisor to express their concerns about the intrusive monster we have made the Census operation. But guess what? These people are the easiest to work with. They just want to put in their two cents worth. The WaPo article seems to want to paint anti-big government types as always on the verge of violence while in this specific case my experience tells me the bad behavior is just the usual suspects acting as they always do.