They give you either a link where you complete the census online or a physical booklet with all the questions present to collect data from the population. What happens if you continue disregarding the census in the US? When was the last census conducted on the entire country? Even then, is answering questions on the census mandatory for both citizens and tourists alike? Also, what are the repercussions for providing false answers?
Well, we count all persons residing in a state or territory of the US.
It’s about allocating resources (and votes in the electoral college and house of reps.)
So people who are undocumented are counted as well- or they try to, anyways. They’re not supposed to use census data for anything other than resource allocation, but with this current admin…. Uh… yeah.