Obama’s census form and the ‘first grandma’

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There’s a place on that census form due Thursday for other people living in the household.

President Obama, who filled out his form and turned it in this week, made sure that the ‘first grandma’ in residence at the White House was duly recorded.

The White House says the president supplied information for himself, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha and the first lady’s mother, Marian Robinson, who lives with the family.

Census Director Robert Groves has noted that living with members of extended families ‘often causes confusion’ on the form.

‘The First Family experiences a unique privilege every day by living in the White House,’’ Groves wrote at his Census Director’s Blog. ‘But one aspect of their lives that is quite common also happens to be something that often causes confusion when people fill out the Census form.’

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-- Mark Silva