Interviewer instructions
Enumeration area
An enumeration area (EA) is the smallest geographical unit (piece of land) into which the country is divided for census or survey enumeration, of a size able to be enumerated by one census fieldworker (enumerator) in the allocated period. EAs typically contain between 100 and 250 households.
Urban formal
Urban formal areas are structured and organised. Houses and flats are built on plots and these often have fences or walls around them. Township houses are usually on smaller plots and there are usually many of the same size and shape.
Industrial areas, shopping centres, office parks and commercial areas also form part of urban formal areas. You will see larger and multi-storey buildings, often with car parks around them.
Recreational areas (golf courses, caravan parks, nature reserves, state forest areas, public entertainment areas, parks and botanic gardens) can contain large grassed areas; pools, paddling pools and other entertainment areas; and areas with dense trees.
Hostels are places where mine or factory workers live. They normally comprise several buildings set in ordered rows or blocks.
Institutions are prisons, hospitals, army areas, etc. On the map, some institutions look similar to hostels. If you recognise something of this kind on the photo, use the list in your 09 book to establish what kind of institution it is.
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Urban informal
Informal settlements or so-called squatter camps are easy to recognise on a photo. The structures are small and crowded together.
Rural formal
Commercial farms cover extensive areas, so any buildings on your map will be very small. Try and pick out owners' houses and labourers' houses. Look for cultivated fields, or grassed fields for animals. Fence lines can usually be seen.
Small holdings are smaller farms, closer to towns. They are usually used for market gardens or orchards.
Commercial plantations are planted in ordered rows in large fields and are easily recognised on an aerial photo.
Tribal areas
Tribal settlement areas are usually villages that fall within a tribal area or tribal authority or administrative area. In some areas villages appear on the map as clusters of houses/huts with large areas of vacant grassland, fields, and patches of natural forest in between. In other areas huts or kraals are scattered throughout the area.
Other
Other features such as transport routes (roads, freeways, railways and paths), public buildings (schools and churches), cemeteries, swimming pools, mine dumps, parking areas, natural forests (not plantations) will be present nearly everywhere.
