Twenty-one year old student MATEUS QUEIROZ has already stood out in his first formal job: he is the enumerator with the highest number of questionnaires applied in Piauí. There were 2,089 forms filled since the beginning of the data collection of the 2022 Population Census, on August 1st, when he began to work.

Studying in the second period of the Bachelor of Administration, Queiroz works as an enumerator in the municipality of Floriano (PI). He has already complemented the data collection in 12 enumeration areas and he is currently carrying out the interviews in the 13th one.

On average, the workers fill 24.5 questionnaires per day, in a shift of nearly 9 daily hours. “In weekends and holidays, I focus on the people whom I didn´t meet during the week,” reports the enumerator.

According to him, the secret to meet the goal is to be patient and persistent. “The strategy is to go slowly and never discourage. It is a service that will bore you, because the sun is hot, there is a lot of people who do not receive you well even today, but we keep on trying with education and sometime the person gives in and agrees to respond,” points him.

Queiroz says he likes his experience as an enumerator. “What I like the most is to know new places and people. I have already heard life stories of many people and it is interesting,” highlights him.

Dedicated, even living far

Thirty-one year old ALEXANDRE SILVA DE LIMA accounts for interviews in 1,432 households in nine enumeration areas of Teresina (PI). He has experience in the IBGE, he has already worked as an APM, which is streamlining his work, allowing him to overcome the difficulties in the data collection and contributing to the increase in his productivity in the field. The more the residents he interviewed know him better, the more they help to convince other residents to answer the Census.  A dedicated person, even living far from many enumeration areas he works, Lima struggles to carry out his activities efficiently, many times over an extended shift in the morning, afternoon and evening.

By bus or by bicycle, from 8 AM to 6 PM

Twenty-year old enumerator LUCAS ALVES ANDRADE works in the city of Teresina (PI) and has collected 1,334 questionnaires in six enumeration areas. In the first enumeration areas, he commuted by bus due to distance of his house and now he uses just a bicycle, due to the proximity. Andrade emphasizes that the reason for his success in the data collection comes from the daily work, which he established as a goal collecting the households of a complete block in the morning and another block in the afternoon, in the period from 8 AM to 6 PM. He managed to convince the most resistant residents to answer the Census questionnaire, always highlighting the public policies resulting from that work. In the case of residents who weren´t in the households during the week, he used the weekends to visit them again and then complete his enumeration areas.

In the morning and afternoon, including Saturdays and Sundays

Twenty-six year old enumerator ELDERSON PEREIRA DA SILVA works in the municipality of Teresina (PI) and has already collected 1,430 Census questionnaires in six enumeration areas since August 1st. He informs us that his productivity is directly linked to the amount of hours worked in the field, because he has been going in the morning and in the afternoon, everyday. The first enumeration area he worked took nearly two weeks to collect and the others took nearly one week each, according to the work strategy he adopted to improve the efficiency of his work. Also according to Silva, in this work strategy, he managed to collect the questionnaires of the residents who were in the households from Monday to Friday, and Saturdays and Sundays were exclusively reserved to return to the households in which the residents were away during the week.