Your Anecdotal Census: A People's History of the New York City Area 2000-2010

Tell us about change that matters in your community. Here are some possible questions to answer. Add your story to the comments below!

How is your community different today than it was 10 years ago?

Who's moving in and who's moving out? 

How has the housing boom/housing bust changed your community?

How have the politics of your community changed? If power has shifted in your community, how and why?

How has 9/11 changed your community? 

Do you have a story about change in your own life over the last decade that you think represents a larger trend?

What's an untold story of change in your community that needs to be told? 

Your Anecdotal Census: A People's History of the New York City Area 2000-2010

Tell us about change that matters in your community. Here are some possible questions to answer. Add your story to the comments below!

How is your community different today than it was 10 years ago?

Who's moving in and who's moving out? 

How has the housing boom/housing bust changed your community?

How have the politics of your community changed? If power has shifted in your community, how and why?

How has 9/11 changed your community? 

Do you have a story about change in your own life over the last decade that you think represents a larger trend?

What's an untold story of change in your community that needs to be told? 

The official 2010 Census form asks 10 questions and we've been asking listeners to send us what the 11th Question should be to learn even more about their neighbors. 

Randy in Croton-on-Hudson suggests: Taking into account all information you know, what would be your most desirable place to live in the USA?  So, let's answer his question -- where would you like to live? Let us know!

→ Check out The Brian Lehrer Show's census project 10 Questions That Count.

Throughout our Census coverage, we're posting quizzes every two weeks to test your demographic knowledge. Brian Lehrer Show Census Project Editor Valerie Lapinski talks about the third quiz, and reveals the answers to quiz #2.

New Quiz Posted Today! Take it here. Missed the old quizzes? ...

Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter for Feet in Two Worlds and for Nowy Dzienik/The Polish Daily News, talks about the changing demographics of Polish immigrants.

Throughout the 10 Questions that Count Census project, we're going to be posting quizzes every other week to test your demographic knowledge. The latest quiz will always live on the 10 Questions home page, but if you missed one, you can take it here (expand this post). Good luck!

Questions 4-7 on the U.S. Census ask you for your telephone number, name, age, sex, and birth date. Some are reluctant to give up this information. D'Vera Cohn, senior writer at the Pew Research Center, explains what they actually use that information for and what the answers to those ...

The Census form is asking 10 Questions this year, but the real story of who we are is much more complex. So, what one extra question would you like to ask everyone in America?

Submit your 11th question ideas at the 10 Questions that Count home ...

Assistant Regional Census Manager Allison Cenac walks listeners through the 2010 Census form, question by question.

William Frey, PhD, demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, shares a new common myth about the US Census each day this week.

Continuing our look at common myths of the US Census, demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution William Frey shares myth number four today.

Continuing our look at common myths of the US Census, demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution William Frey shares myth number three today.

With the U.S. Census approaching, we clear up some common myths about the count. Demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, William Frey, shares a myth about the U.S. Census each day this week.

The U.S. Census is coming, and it's time to clear up some common myths about the count. Demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, William Frey shares a new myth about the U.S. Census each day this week.

Why is the census such a politically contentious endeavor? Amy Sullivan, contributing writer for Time magazine answers that question.

The 2010 Census is coming, and the government wants you to know about it. New York Times advertising columnist Stuart Elliot discusses the media blitz - and the large amounts of funding - that drives census awareness.

Snapshot of America: The Census Ad Campaign (See ...

Throughout the year, the Brian Lehrer Show will be covering the 2010 census and what it means for the New York region. Valerie Lapinski, the BL Show's census editor, is in Alaska where polling begins ahead of the rest of the country. She checks in from Sitka to discuss the ...