Census enumerator posts receive 16,000 applications

The Central Statistics Office was yesterday inundated with applications for the 4,660 vacant enumerator positions for Census 2016.

Demand for the jobsexceeded expectations, and the CSO closed the registration process at lunchtime yesterday after just four hours, by which time more than 16,000 people had recorded their interest in the positions.

A spokesperson for the CSO said that it originally expected it could take a number of days to reach 15,000 applications: “In advance of Census 2011, it took 36 hours to reach 15,000 applications.”