Please help field workers to collect data in your neighbourhood for Pilot Census
Stats SA employees wear branded bibs, have Stats SA ID cards, and will have a letter introducing themselves and the survey.
Stats SA will deploy field workers to collect data for the Pilot Census from August 13 to 31.
Fieldworkers will be visiting sampled households in seven provinces namely: Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and North West.
The fieldworkers will visit sampled households to complete the Pilot Census questionnaire as the last leg of the pilot phase, which started with remote data collection via online and telephonic methods during alert level 4 lockdown.
In eMalahleni, the Pilot census will begin in Extension 41, 8 and Del Judor 4.
“Stats SA has the responsibility of ensuring that data is made available to planning and decision-making, despite the challenging conditions. Conducting the Pilot Census is one of the crucial steps toward the full population count and there needs to be a balance of carrying out the task while ensuring the safety of fieldworkers and respondents. As such, fieldworkers are being deployed in line with adjusted lockdown level 3 as announced by the President,” Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke said.
The organisation was forced to suspend all face-to-face fieldwork activities when the country went into Alert Level 4 Lockdown on June 28 but continued with the testing of remote data collection methods, namely Computer Assisted Web Interview and Computer Assisted Telephonic Interview, for the Pilot Census.
Stats SA is aware that criminal elements may try to take advantage of this project to conduct illegal activities. Households are urged to verify that the person at their door is a legitimate Stats SA employee.
Stats SA employees wear branded bibs, have Stats SA ID cards, and will have a letter introducing themselves and the survey. Households can use several methods to verify fieldworkers.
They can check the online fieldworker verification system, contact the call centre at 0800 110 248 (toll-free) or telephone their nearest provincial or district office.
A census is a total count of the population; it also collects information on the socio-economic aspects such as employment and access to basic services. Participating in the Pilot Census will help with planning for the census. Stats SA urges all households to cooperate with our fieldworkers.
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