"The U.S. census is a direct count of every resident. Required by the Constitution, it has taken place every decade since 1790."

"The data it collects is used to determine political representation in Congress and to direct more than $1.5 trillion in federal funding annually."

Serious questions...

1.) What data are they anonymizing? Especially by "randomizing numbers by taking numbers in one place to another place", doesn't this defeat the purpose of a census?

2.) Are they asking your political affiliation? I never got asked this, rather just: "how many people live here" - this is all I was asked.

3.) What other questions are they asking residents? Is it different in each state? What are they doing with this data? Is it legal?

4.) Isn't this then number used to assign how many "congressional seats" go to which state?