enumerator

/ ɪˈnjuːməˌreɪtə /

noun

1. a person or thing that enumerates
2. a person who compiles the voting list for an area
3. a person who issues and retrieves forms during a census of population

Example Sentences

Andhra Pradesh in January began its own such caste census, sending out thousands of enumerators armed with lists of previously known caste groups to match with residents around the state.

From Science Magazine

In 1881, more than 250 million people answered a list of sometimes puzzling questions put to them by hundreds of enumerators, and were counted in British India's first synchronised census.

From BBC

Back then there was also lots of potential for drama large and small, given that the census was conducted by “enumerators” who went door to door and collected answers in their own variably legible penmanship.

From New York Times

But counting every household requires an army of enumerators to make repeated follow-up visits to dwellings believed to house residents who did not respond to the initial census questionnaire.

From Science Magazine

Next door, the enumerator recorded Joseph F. Curtis, a mail carrier, and next door to him a truck driver, Alfred Travers, his wife, Ada, and their nine children.

From Washington Post