On Wednesday, November 27, the training for the dress rehearsal in the State Units finished. In Amazonas, the last two weeks involved a lot of learning, which should result in success in the field. Altogether, 19 servants participated in the training aimed at the CCSs who will work as enumerators, ACMs, ACSs and supervisors.

The first phase focused on the preparation of the enumerators, who were trained in the concepts and procedures that will be used in the data collection, like the route in the enumeration area, the application of the questionnaires and the urban survey of the surroundings.

The second training week, in turn, was dedicated to those who will work as census agents, either municipal or supervisor, focusing on the activities of supervision and monitoring of the data collection. In Amazonas, the training was carried out by servants Leyane Neves and Washington Maciel, who will be an ACS and an ACM in the dress rehearsal, respectively.

Édina Thomé (CCS) tells that the training weeks were “very intense, with a lot of contents, yet I believe that the CCSs acquired a very practical experience through simulations, contact with the DMC and experiences very similar to those that we will face in the field,” summarizes her.

Test to clear doubts and adapt enumerators and census agents

For Tiago Almudi, Census technical coordinator in Amazonas, the training met the expectations: “the class was very interactive, questioning the concepts as we think a good class should be. As in any class, some were quieter, but, as a class in general, they all made questions, very connected and very smart,” says him.

For Almudi, who will be one of the observers during the dress rehearsal, the “mini Census in Amazonas will be a good opportunity to assess the work of the enumerator in the census operation next year: I want that each participant fills a small report, at least once a week, pre-establishing some themes like, for example, how was the use of DMCs, the filling of the questionnaires, whether they had doubts, whether they had any difficulty in the field, how was the relationship with the supervisor, what can be improved and, thus, we can assess how is the work, as me and Braz will be there as observers,” said Almudi.

For him, in the technical coordination of the Census, “the most important is to check now what are the doubts that may arise concerning the concepts of the Census questionnaire; check at application time whether the enumerators used a wrong concept, for example. Whatever happens will be a good learning. Moreover, it is important to master the electronic managing tools of the Census (SIGC), which we will follow up daily,” explains Almudi.