How to Use enumerator in a Sentence

enumerator

noun

• The Florida enumerator said her mask was flimsy and too big for her face.
  — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• In Arizona, most of the jobs will be for enumerators, the people who go door to door to interview people who have not filled out the census form.
  — azcentral, 9 Jan. 2020
• So an enumerator, also known as a census taker, would go door to door and ask how many people lived there.
  — Aviva Rutkin, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
• The last resort is to send out enumerators, sometimes repeatedly, to knock on the door.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• The bureau had planned to begin sending enumerators to households that do not respond in mid-May.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2020
• That’s when enumerators could be on the ground, wearing protective gear.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Apr. 2020
• Census enumerators will attempt to follow up with residents who do not fill out the 2020 forms, which for the first time may be answered online as well as through the mail.
  — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Cook said the bureau will emphasize that households that do so can avoid an in-person visit from an enumerator.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• In May, the bureau will begin sending enumerators to households that do not respond.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 13 Jan. 2020
• The workers known as enumerators who go door to door to gather the data are hired directly by the federal government.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2019
• In addition to enumerators, the official term for people who knock on doors, there are a variety of office jobs.
  — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2020
• To count those who don’t send in responses by the end of April, the Census Bureau will in mid-May begin to send out enumerators, the folks who go door to door collecting data from the nonresponders.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
• The Census Bureau sets the hourly pay of enumerators, which can vary within the same county, based on an analysis of Labor Department wage data.
  — Olivera Perkins, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• In Bexar County, the bureau had planned to hire about 2,000 enumerators, said local census spokeswoman Ximena Alvarez.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Apr. 2020
• The average enumerator will work six to eight weeks, setting their own schedule, generally about 20 to 25 hours a week, often a few evenings plus Saturday and sometimes Sunday, Olson said.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• The pandemic has forced the Census Bureau to delay sending out enumerators to track down anyone who hasn’t already completed the 10-question census form that became available last month.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2020
• Next month, some 3 million enumerators will fan out across India in a once-a-decade ritual, gathering data for one of Asia’s oldest and most respected censuses.
  — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2020
• The eBee drone, weighing a pound and a half, does duty as a census enumerator, sailing aloft for nearly an hour at a time and allowing scientists to count moving animal populations.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Instead, enumerators in the field will be plugging information into iPhones.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
• And recent attacks on fieldworkers conducting other government surveys have raised concerns about the safety of India’s enumerators, who will begin work on 1 April.
  — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2020
• The bureau also hopes to mine federal databases and even satellite images for information that could reduce wasted trips by enumerators — to vacant buildings, for example — and automatically fill in personal data like addresses and ages.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• The bureau is seeking thousands of workers in Northeast Ohio primarily for Census takers, or enumerators, but also for supervisory, clerical and other positions.
  — Olivera Perkins, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• The 1850 census instructed enumerators: Be particularly careful to distinguish between blacks, mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons.
  — Jess McHugh, Fortune, 20 June 2019
• Conversely, the folklore of enumerators also includes examples where the enumerator outsmarts a reluctant resident.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020

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