UPWARDS 200 Census enumerators are knocking on doors in Limerick and will be visiting every home making sure that each has a form and that the householder is happy they know how to fill it out.
Said spokesperson: “This is a very important time for Ireland. As a society, we are faced now with making crucial decisions about our future and it is imperative that we have accurate and objective information on which to base those decisions.
“The Census is the most comprehensive and valuable of these information sources”.
The Census will give a comprehensive picture of the social and living conditions of our people in 2011.
Only a census can provide such complete detail right down to the smallest area and the results are an essential tool for effective policy, planning and decision making purposes.
It provides the knowledge so that public resources can be shared evenly across the country and to ensure that services at local level are relevant to all the people who live there.
As well as collecting information on the age and sex of the population, a range of different questions relating to households and individuals are also asked such as where and what people work at, how people travel to work, school and college, languages spoken, disabilities, families, housing and lots more
It should take an average household approximately 30 minutes to complete the form. Enumerators will call to collect the completed forms in the three to four weeks after Census Night. All census enumerators will be wearing clearly marked reflective jackets and will be carrying I.D.
For those whose first language is not English, a translation of the census form is available in the following 21 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Urdu and Yoruba.
