I'm currently working at the Census Bureau, and the section I'm in is doing what they call "open and sort" of the Ag Census forms.
What goes into the pile called a "good report"? Any report that doesn't have a name or address change, or a partnership change, marked on the front page; that came in with only one report in the mailing envelope; that doesn't have multiple counties listed on page 2, or a different county than what's under the bar code on the front page; that doesn't have other correspondence, or threatening correspondence, either written on the report or sent with the report; and that has some numbers written in Sections 5 through 20.
And at the time we were preparing the Ag Census, we were also printing to mail an Economic Census, which was sent to other businesses such as restaurants, plumbers, bait houses and fishing equipment sellers, auto parts stores, and just about every other type of retail business you could imagine. So don't get the idea that "only" the farmers got a survey to fill out, or that farmers are being "picked on."
Now, I'm not going to tell you HOW to fill out your forms...BUT...the folks in "open and sort" don't even look at the sections on income or machinery or any of that. We're ONLY concerned with what county's listed in Section 1, and whether there ARE numbers in Sections 5 through 20 or not. Maybe the folks in data entry deal with the rest of that. But each of us handles so many forms a day that your particular information remains confidential, because there's no way we could POSSIBLY remember all we see, even from one person's forms. I saw the name of a family friend on one form I opened; can't for the life of me remember how many acres he told the government he farmed, or anything else on that form...other than the fact that I know the man, and I know he sent in his form. And Title 13 says that any information I see is confidential, so I can't even tell my wife that this family friend's form passed through my hands, so I just keep it to myself.
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