Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3">1.1. What is a census of population and housing?</span>
<br />This census counts all people, households and housing units in the country, also obtaining information on their main characteristics.</p>
<p><span class="h3">1.2. What is the Purpose of a census of population and housing?</span>
<br />It gives the following data:</p>
<div class="i1">- How many of us are there?<br />- Where do we live?<br />- And what do we need?</div><div class="i2">- Building of housing units<br />- Electrification<br />- Education<br />- Water and sewerage networks</div><p>It lets us update the statistics so that the country's authorities can take the necessary actions.</p>
<p><span class="h3">1.3. What type of census will be carried out?</span>
<br />It will be a de-facto census. In other words, people will be counted in the place where they spent the night of Saturday, October 21 to Sunday, October 22, 2017. It's like taking a picture of the country at 12 o'clock at night on Saturday, October 21.</p>
<p><span class="h3">1.4. How will the district census be organized?</span>
<br />In the urban area: it will be composed of urban registration zones, sections and areas.
<br />In the rural area: it will be composed of rural registration sections and areas.</p>
<p><span class="em">Urban Area:</span>
<br />It is the part of a district territory composed by populated areas with a minimum of 100 Housing Units grouped contiguously, which are called "urban population centers".</p>
<p><span class="em">Rural Area:</span>
<br />It is the part of a district territory composed by populated areas, extending from the suburbs of the urban populated areas to the district limits, which are called "rural populated areas".</p>
<p><span class="em">Populated Area:</span>
<br />It is the place in a district territory bearing a name and inhabited by several families, a single family or a single person that intend to stay there.
<br />The Housing Units in the populated area may form blocks, streets and squares, as in towns or cities; be semi-dispersed, as in villages, annexes, among others; or totally dispersed, as in the case of agricultural environments.</p>
<p>Depending on the number and distribution of its housing units, a populated area can be urban or rural.</p>
<p><span class="em">Urban Registration Area - AEU</span>
<br />It is the territorial area assigned to an urban census enumerator, so that on Census Day all the existing people and Housing Units can be registered. It has a maximum of 16 housing units.</p>
<p><span class="em">Rural Registration Area - AER</span>
<br />It is the territorial area having one or more rural populated areas and assigned to a rural census enumerator to register all the people and housing units existing in it in a period not exceeding fifteen (15) days.</p>
<p>The workload for a rural census enumerator will include the coast and the highlands from 80 to 120 housing units and the rainforest from 60 to 80 Housing Units.
