census taker
3
3.6
- noun
- /ˈsɛn.səs ˈteɪ.kər/
:
encuestador
- How might the census taker's judgment and frame of reference have influenced the classification of people into work categories?
- census takers count
- census takers were sent
- census takers will go
Examples
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When I see her again in May of 2000, she is working as a census taker.
Fiction book (2001) -
So I mentioned Germany, in Canada, the census takers go out not only to take the census, but to register people to vote.
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A census-taker once tried to test me.
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I have only worked as a census taker since then.
Blog text (23) -
The census taker just told us that one of our men is returning from the city late tonight.
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Previous census takers were ordinary people they hired off the street who had no previous experience collecting census data.
Blog text (8) -
The usual residence rule, at least in its current form, has not been the uniform practice of census-takers since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Academic text (2017) -
Interracial couples often married in black churches in New York, worked in the city, sent their children to local African schools, and successfully interacted with government institutions, including pension officials, local court representatives, and census takers.
Academic text (2005) -
This is also reflected in the discussion of methodology above, wherein people's reluctance to talk with census takers and other data collectors stems from their concern about the ends to which this information might be put.
Academic text (2002) -
The census taker visited each household to collect information about the population.
Synonyms
2
7.0
A person who visits homes to count people and record information for a survey like a census
2
4.1
A person who asks people questions and records their answers
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'person who collects census data' is directly and compositionally derived from 'census' (official population count) plus the agentive element 'taker' (one who takes), following a common English noun+agent pattern. This structure is transparent and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Census taker comes from the simple picture of a person who 'takes' a census by going door to door to count people and write down facts. So a census taker is someone who visits homes to 'collect census data'.