U.S. Census forms should be arriving in Idaho mailboxes this week.
The forms, mailed to households once every decade, are mandated by the U.S. Constitution and critical to a variety of state and federal government functions and services.
The 2010 survey is composed of 10 questions and includes a stamped envelope to make it easy, and cheap, to send back to the Census Bureau.
Census data helps determine boundaries for state and local legislative and congressional districts. The information is also vital to helping decide how to distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds each year to pay for school lunch programs, vocational training, road construction and emergency services. (AP)
