Sentence examples for the enumerator from inspiring English sources

After asking "Have you a bathtub?" the enumerator in the same official tone, asked.

But the Edeys were in occupancy at 10 West 56th when the enumerator for the 1905 New York State census arrived.

Census officials said this week that they had met 90percentt of their goal of testing 3 million applicants nationwide, including about 250,000 in the New York region, for the enumerator jobs.

When my mother's Irish immigrant family in Holyoke, Mass., was interviewed (on the doorstep, probably) for the 1900 census, the enumerator was told there were five children, the youngest of whom (3 years old) was Jo, my mother.

I searched through twenty-six census forms (click to expand the two below) filled with the pinched, Depression era handwriting of the enumerator, one Mortimer A. Gubbis, Jr., until I came upon the names of assorted ancestors: both of my paternal grandparents, two uncles, and numerous cousins, but not my father, who must have been living somewhere else at that point.

The 1940 census was the first to ask more detailed questions such as the place of the parents' birth, income for twelve months prior, the value of the house, and who gave the interview to the "enumerator," or census taker, who came to the door.

The enumerators and interviewers were trained in enumeration procedures, mobilization and registration of participants, while the ophthalmic nurses were trained in VA measurement and recording.

Still, state media reports that many are evading the enumerators.

In the 1990 census, not all the enumerators were so diligent; some made up the information instead.

Most of the activity begins before dawn to catch the owls and lasts until the weather sends the enumerators home.

But a plan to issue handheld computers to the "enumerators" for chivvying non-replying households had to be cancelled.