The majority of the people in the United States are enumerated in the census by a self-administered questionnaire mailed to their place of residence. However, there are many census operations that enumerate people living in the United States in situations that are not conducive to receiving a mailed questionnaire. Some of these operations are targeted at very rural parts of the country, where city-style addresses are not used. Others are targeted at places that house groups of people, such as college dormitories. Each operation has its own procedures, and many of them use tailored census questionnaires to gather data in a way that is most appropriate to the situation.

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