Staff training manual for population and housing census

Abstract

It is generally accepted that the training of staff for a population and housing census is an extremely important phase in the preparation of the census, since its success rests entirely in the hands of the staff. In addition to the statistical team responsible for managing the census, there are the field staff (enumerators, supervisors, and field officers), data processing staff, such as checkers of questionnaires, staff responsible for coding, and machine-operators, for these officials to perform their tasks, a very complex one, correctly, they must learn their duties well, in other words, they must know the contents of the census documents, the techniques used and must be familiar with the organization of the census.