3/29-3/31/2010 - Census’ Service-Based Enumeration (shelter count)

The Census Bureau plans to conduct the 2010 SBE operation over a three-day period.
On the first night, enumerators will count persons residing in shelters, which include:
• emergency shelters for those without traditional housing
• shelters for runaway, neglected, or homeless children and youth
• shelters for abused women and children
• transitional shelters
• hotels and motels used to house those without traditional housing.
On the second day, enumerators will interview persons at regularly scheduled mobile food vans and persons at soup kitchens. If individuals at the mobile food vans and soup kitchens report a “usual residence,” they are not included in the SBE operation and are instead included in the general population count.
On the third night, enumerators will count persons at pre-identified targeted nonsheltered outdoor locations.