I am sure there is room for someone to write a book on the ups and downs of being a census enumeraotr!
I was an enumerator for the 2011 Census, covering communal establishments such as nursing homes, hotels/b&bs, and caravan sites in a rural area. Despite being told at the induction that all the data we would be using was carefully prepared, some of the addresses, particularly for the smaller caravan sites, were only a village and a postcode. I spent a lot of time on Google and then driving up and down lanes looking for gaps in hedges! There were also plenty of places that had ceased trading, were derelict, had been wrongly categorised or were out of area.
On the upside, I did get to meet a lot of lovely people and, as I recall, the weather was sunny and bright for March
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