Students are being recruited to collect Census data as Bermuda undertakes its first national survey since 2000.

Government is looking to recruit 100 more interviewers and will hold a round of Census Training from June 10-28.

Director of Statistics, Valerie Robinson James, said: "Students were recruited for the first training session in April; but now that a large number of students are back home for the summer break, this will be a good opportunity for them to earn additional money during the evenings while working a summer day job to help with their costs associated with overseas schooling."

Government did not say why the extra staff were needed. Announcing Census Day on May 20, Premier Ewart Brown said up to 200 Census workers would be interviewing residents across the Island.

Household interviews for the 2010 Census will be completed by August 31. Interviewers have been assigned to Census district areas across the nine parishes and have approximately 100 household addresses they must visit.

Mrs. Robinson James said: "The primary data collection method will be by personal interview. That is, an interviewer will visit your household and administer the questionnaire person to person.

"Census interviewers are hired to visit households during the evenings and weekends as many have day jobs. Roughly 170 interviewers have started visiting households."

In Smith's, households which met the May 6 deadline to schedule a telephone interview have been mailed a household listing form.

When they are visited, the field interviewer will verify the number of people that live there, a process which will take a couple of minutes.

The interviewer will then take the household listing as a cross check that the household has in fact been visited and interviewed. Mrs. Robinson James said: "This process is important to ensure accuracy of person count in each household."

The Census aims to count every resident on the Island. It takes place every ten years and is in keeping with a global initiative encouraged by the United Nations Statistics Division.

For more information visit: www.statistics.gov.bm.