Statistics Estonia has started recruiting 132 supervisors of enumerators for the Population Census

“The task of the supervisor of enumerators is to supervise the work of 15–17 enumerators and to guarantee that all the residents in the supervision area would be enumerated,” said Ms Palmi Lindjärv, Human Resources Manager of the 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC 2011). The applicants can apply for the job until 16 October and supervisors of enumerators will start work on 5 December.

For conducting PHC 2011, Statistics Estonia has planned to recruit over 2,400 persons: 15 district heads, 25 personnel employees, 132 supervisors of enumerators, 90 data processing operators and 2,200 enumerators (incl. 200 enumerators on-call time). By now, competitions for the recruitment of district heads and personnel employees have ended successfully.

The next job competition will be announced on 23 September when data processing operators will be recruited. The biggest job competition for finding 2,200 enumerators will be announced on 3 October.

All job offers are published at /uudised/population-census where also short descriptions of jobs and requirements for them can be found. The jobs can be applied for via internet recruitment companies CV-Online and CV Keskus.

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 enumerators 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.