Statistics Estonia starts to search for employees of the Population Census
Starting from today, the persons interested in working for the 2011 Population and Housing Census can register on the website of Statistics Estonia, so that they could be contacted when the job competition has been announced. Large-scale recruitment competitions will be announced in autumn.
“For conducting the Population Census, we are planning to engage over 2,400 persons step by step. In the context of Estonia we have to do with a large-scale recruitment. That is the reason why we start quite early collecting contacts of persons interested in Census work, so that we could contact them directly after the competition has been announced,“ said Ms Palmi Lindjärv, Personnel Chief of the 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC 2011).
Persons interested in working as district head, enumerator or data processing operator can register on the website of Statistics Estonia /uudised/population-census under the heading “Job vacancies”. In the field of the work form the applicant can note down the job he/she is interested in, work district and his/her contact data. When the competition has been announced, a memo will be sent by e-mail to those having registered.
For conducting PHC 2011, Statistics Estonia has planned to recruit over 2,400 persons for different work periods: 2,200 enumerators (incl. 200 enumerators on-call time), 132 supervisors of enumerators and 15 district heads and 90 data processing operators. All job offers will be published on the website /uudised/population-census where also short descriptions of jobs and requirements for them can be found.
In Estonia, the Population and Housing Census will be carried out from 31 December this year until 31 March next year. The electronic Population and Housing Census or e-census, where the permanent residents of Estonia can fill out questionnaires on the Internet, will take place during the first month (31.12.2011–31.01.2012). Those who do not participate in the e-census will be visited by interviewers in the period 16.02–31.03.2012.
In 2011 the Population Census will be conducted for the eleventh time in the territory of Estonia. Previous censuses were carried out in 1881, 1897, 1922, 1934, 1941, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989 and 2000. In 2010 and 2011 Population and Housing Censuses will be held in the majority of countries all over the world.