survey-enumerator/references/skills.md

Competences — survey enumerator

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a1cf1406-3632-494c-bff3-0bd5d5327d8f).

Essential

• adhere to questionnaires (skill/competence)
• capture people's attention (skill/competence)
• communication (knowledge)
• document interviews (skill/competence)
• fill out forms (skill/competence)
• information confidentiality (knowledge)
• interview people (skill/competence)
• interview techniques (knowledge)
• observe confidentiality (skill/competence)
• prepare survey report (skill/competence)
• respond to enquiries (skill/competence)
• survey techniques (knowledge)
• tabulate survey results (skill/competence)
• use questioning techniques (skill/competence)

Optional

• communicate by telephone (skill/competence)
• conduct public surveys (skill/competence)
• data quality assessment (knowledge)
• demography (knowledge)
• design questionnaires (skill/competence)
• evaluate interview reports (skill/competence)
• explain interview purposes (skill/competence)
• manage needs for stationery items (skill/competence)
• market research (knowledge)
• national population census (knowledge)
• operate GPS systems (skill/competence)
• opinion poll (knowledge)
• perform data analysis (skill/competence)
• politics (knowledge)
• polling techniques (knowledge)
• present reports (skill/competence)
• psychology (knowledge)
• revise questionnaires (skill/competence)
• statistics (knowledge)
• use microsoft office (skill/competence)
• use office systems (skill/competence)
• use shorthand (skill/competence)
• visual presentation techniques (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 5 ads, as of 2026-07-20)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

• data collection — 80 %
• interviewing — 60 %
• crop counting — 40 %
• customer service — 20 %
• address list updating — 20 %
• agricultural data analysis — 20 %
• agricultural statistics — 20 %
• information entry — 20 %
• survey administration — 20 %
• survey interviewing — 20 %

Responsibilities

• survey actions — 20 %
• interviewing — 20 %
• payroll record maintenance — 20 %
• rancher interviewing — 20 %
• respondent communication — 20 %
• census data collection — 20 %
• communication with respondents — 20 %
• address verification — 20 %
• agricultural business interviewing — 20 %
• data collection — 20 %
• data recording — 20 %
• data reporting — 20 %
• farm interviews — 20 %
• farmer interviewing — 20 %
• field travel — 20 %
• field work — 20 %
• household interviews — 20 %