A common vision links two enumerators who manage to carry out the interviews and complete their enumeration areas in RS: know that each informant is different and deserves a customized approach. “The main point is to know and understand that each one has his/her own style,” tells the enumerator Jonas Mizael Corrêa. Up to October 10, Corrêa had already earned more than 16 thousand reais and worked in enumeration areas of four municipalities: Caiçara, Frederico Westphalen, Vicente Dutra and Seberi.

This is the same opinion of Kelvin Moura, who has already closed six enumeration areas in the neighborhood of Restinga, south zone of Porto Alegre. “Each person is different, and we manage to adapt our language,” explains him.

"We adapt our language to each person", explains Kelvin Moura

Both of them also value the experience of knowing different people and places. “We think a lot inside our box and forget how people live. In Quirionas Road, I saw people without sewage, without piped water, getting water from a well. We begin to understand what people need, not only us,” states Moura.

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“We get to know many things. There are people who treat you very well. There are people whom you visit in the morning and they say: ‘Where will you lunch? Come back later for lunch’,” reports Corrêa.

Thirty-year old Corrêa has already worked as a farmer and welder. In 2017, he worked in the Census of Agriculture. “At that time, I could see that I can earn much money. I worked in the agriculture at that time, used only one or two days per week for the Census and earned 13 thousand reais.

"We get to know a lot of things (in the Census)", tells Jonas Mizael Corrêa

Corrêa has been working in the Population Census on a daily basis. His strategy is to work in a fixed schedule in business days for about eight hours per day. And he always try not to lose the trip. “If someone is not at home, I leave a letter, try to find a relative who lives nearby, try to get the telephone number. I have visited every house a maximum of two or three times.”

Moura, in turn, has been working in the weekends and holidays, since people in the urban area use to be away in business hours. “I work six days a week, rest for a day, though not a fixed one, since it is easier to find people at home in weekends and holidays.”

The enumerator tells that he firstly calms the resident down concerning frauds. “Firstly I introduce myself, show the badge, show the id, if needed, because we know that people are very concerned about frauds nowadays. I explain the importance of the Census and, as a poor area, people understand that it is important to respond it.”

Twenty-seven year old Moura has already worked as a door-to-door salesman, in supermarkets and as a driver, experiences that contribute to talk with people. He believes that his work as an enumerator will contribute to his future as well. “A nice experience, with a social function.”