How to Use enumerator in a Sentence

enumerator

noun

• 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 Florida enumerator said her mask was flimsy and too big for her face.
  — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• That’s when enumerators could be on the ground, wearing protective gear.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Apr. 2020
• The last resort is to send out enumerators, sometimes repeatedly, to knock on the door.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 13 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
• The bureau had planned to begin sending enumerators to households that do not respond in mid-May.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2020
• In May, the bureau will begin sending enumerators to households that do not respond.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 13 Jan. 2020
• Lally was just 5 years old when the enumerators came to her family’s farm in the Irish countryside.
  — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lally was just 5 years old when census enumerators came to the family farm in 1926.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
• Instead, enumerators in the field will be plugging information into iPhones.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 12 Mar. 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
• The moment enumerators came around and conducted the census isn’t something that Lally remembers.
  — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Conversely, the folklore of enumerators also includes examples where the enumerator outsmarts a reluctant resident.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 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 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
• Out of financial necessity during the pandemic, reporter Jeremy Miller becomes a census enumerator in Richmond, California, for $25 an hour.
  — Longreads, 24 Oct. 2021