It's not a new thing. In fact it had been done for years ago, and it will constantly be done in years to come.
Here are some definition to census:
"A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. ..."
"population count, as in: The last census showed an increase in single-parent families."
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| taken from Wikipedia: A census taker visits a family living in caravan |
Well, enough with the definition. Now back to the issue here:
The census people are complaining to the media that they're not getting cooperation with those homemakers or households.
The people are afraid that those census people might be conman or conwoman or bogus people with bogus identities in order to spy for the house's belongings or worse, to rob the house.
What had really happened? What the cause of this issue?
All that i can tell is that our neighborhood is not like before. Our neighborhood is not like the 80's or the 90's where there is no such suspicions. Where our neighborhood or the roadside we walked is still safe with no or less people with bad intentions with money as their god in their mind to scam people or to make people suffer as the result of their selfishness and their greed for it.
I still remember during my childhood, where there were two ladies from the census department came over to my house in order to take census for that year (I believe it was in the 90's). Mother already knew that they were tired and they were served with hot drinks and some biscuits. After having some nice afternoon chats and laughs with mother and taking census data, they went out and stick the pink/yellow card showing that the house had been taken census, and the most important, without leaving any suspicion at all and the most important data that had made Malaysia what it becomes today (lets all forget all the political scenes and jokes that had happened LOL).
Now the scene is different, so much different.
People are in the state of phobia, especially whenever a stranger coming in to your house. To analyze this, it was because of all the scams that we encountered. All the direct selling people that went to our house. All those robberies that we heard today, all those bogus cops, all those conman that enter into houses and rob their houses.
As for the census takers, they had not been friendly enough. Well, at least this is what i heard from friends that had census coming into their house. From me myself, I also heard that those census taker are knocking on people's houses very loud. You can hear them knocking at least from 50 meters away. As I scrolled through my FB, one of my friends did mention that those census takers are not giving a smile at all.
This is the true problems that we face today. Times had changed and the way of people approaching another people also should have changed.
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