Counted!
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@ZedSmart (19753)
Philippines
October 12, 2020 1:45am CST
Just few minutes after a I woke up about past eight in the morning, there's some calling outside. Not a familiar person. It turned out to be someone from the Statistics Office for census of the population. There were questions asked and that was it. For this country's censal year, I and and the other members of the house are counted.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
12 Oct 20
A former work colleague of mine is doing this census work in their area.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
13 Oct 20
@ZedSmart Yup, she did so this was a good way to still have work and income even for just a month.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
13 Oct 20
@ZedSmart Good for them that their target completion is 1 month. Right after graduation, I took the exam for city census officer, and out of over a hundred applicants, I was one of the top 5. However, I was a new graduate and my only civil service eligibility was the automatic eligibility attached to being an honor graduate. 3 of the other top 5 were government employees who had passed 2 or 3 civil service exams. The position went to a public school teacher. After 2 weeks, they conducted again an exam for census enumerator which I also took and passed. We were to finish the census of our assigned area in 10 days. My area was a mountainous one and I had to wake up at dawn and hitch a ride on sugarcane trucks and walk several kilometers in the mountain which I learned later on was NPA-infested. It would be night time when I returned home with body aching. Halfway into the work, I received a telegram informing me that I was to report to the bank I applied with. Good thing I finished my assignment in 7 days while those assigned in the lowlands finished theirs in 10 days or even exceeded it. Being a census enumerator was a tiresome work. I had to carry heavy census materials and my lunch and drinking water. I had to walk long stretches of sugarcane fields alone. BTW, I've read that the census being done now is also related to the National ID System.
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@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
12 Oct 20
I'm not sure if it's simultaneous all over the country or just some cities or municipalities are just ahead. Or maybe the PSA is just implementing it because I think, they're also starting to accept application for the National ID system here.
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@JESSY3236 (18953)
• United States
12 Oct 20
I received a form in the mail a few months back. I did the form and mail it back.
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