Decennial Census Field Workforce (temporary enumerators)

A temporary, government‑hired corps of roughly 950,000 enumerators and field staff contracted by the Decennial Census to carry out door‑to‑door, person‑by‑person population counts. They function as the operational field workforce executing direct household enumeration under constitutional and administrative directives; their deployment, procedures, and coverage influence debates about accuracy and the systematic undercounting of inner‑city residents, recent immigrants, and people experiencing homelessness.