Skills
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Overview
Survey enumerators interview people and complete forms to collect information by phone, mail, personal visits or street surveys, often for demographic or public statistics work.
In job descriptions, look for questionnaires, interview techniques, confidentiality, form completion, survey reports, tabulated results, public surveys and careful responses to enquiries.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Survey enumerators work where the data is collected: on the phone, at doors, in public places or through mailed forms. The main task is to follow the questionnaire, record answers accurately and protect respondent information.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include interview technique, confidentiality, form completion, explaining interview purpose, tabulating results and preparing survey reports. GPS use can matter in field enumeration.
Salary context
Pay is shaped by field travel, contact volume, language or interview difficulty, data-quality responsibility and whether the role only collects answers or also checks and summarizes results.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward survey supervision, market research interviewing, data-quality checking, public statistics support or junior research operations roles with questionnaire and fieldwork coordination.
Good to know
Check whether work is door-to-door, phone-based or street-based, how refusals are handled, what confidentiality rules apply and how completed forms are reviewed.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
Survey and market research interviewers (4227)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a1cf1406-3632-494c-bff3-0bd5d5327d8f |
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| ESCO code | 4227.2 |
| ISCO group | 4227 |
| Concept type | Occupation |