According to figures at the world population clock as posted at www.census.gov recently, the United States boasted 4.260193 percent of the total world population, as of Monday March 15 of this year.

As an independent fact check, the posted numbers were 330,139,614 for U.S. population divided by 7,749,404,569 for that of the world. In government transparency, the Census numbers are still being checked, though the fact that said ‘quality checks’ are discovering ‘anomalies,’ is proof that the Census is working, at least according to the Census Bureau–which brings us to Boyd. If Cenus data can be trusted, it beats out the local competition for Census Bureau self-report, that is to say, making government worker’s lives easier by cooperating. How so?

Well, if the self-report figures down at Census. gov are accurate–and we know they’re being checked–but if the figures are accurate, Boyd Wisconsin residents outdid residents in Stanley Wisconsin by a full 1.2 percent in self-report rate. Meanwhilefor those using internet to respond, for which there is likely overlap with self-reporting (in that you can’t have a greater than one hundred percent response rate in the real world), Boyd Wisconsin residents outdid Stanley residents by a full 0.1. percent, coming out with 55.5 percent responding through internet in Boyd as opposed to just 55.4 percent responding by internet for Stanley.

Moving down the line, the self-report rate for nearby Cadott was 73.2 percent total with 55.8 percent responding via the world wide web. With Stanley, Boyd, and Cadott all located within Chippewa County, a starck difference is noted as soon as one crosses the county line, specifically in internet responses.

Moving to Thorp, the self-response rate for the 2020 U.S. Census was 75./9, with just 29.7 percent responding by internet, a sharp contrast with Chippewa. For Gilman, the self-response rate was 69.9 percent, with 26.7 percent ( a possibly overlapping number) responding by internet. So is this a survey issue, or a technological one? A possible clue lies in the larger county-wide response rates, which mirror local results.

For Chippewa County, the self-respons/internet reply rates are 77.3 and 65.2 percent, while for Eau Claire County those numbers are 80.8 and 69.6 percent respectively.

Moving to Clark County, the response rates are 68.3 self-response and 28.2 by internet, while for Taylor the numbers are 66.7 and 43.2 respectively, suggesting that if nothing else more attention needs to be paid by officials to getting linked in, subject to a signal quality check.