enumerators

Those who tally

Enumerators are people who count or list things systematically.

The term appears most often in the context of census work, where enumerators go door to door collecting demographic information: Census enumerators faced hostility in some neighborhoods.

In programming, an enumerator is a data type or object that iterates through a collection of items.

officials

clerks

Administrative office employees

administrators · field workers · interviewers · canvassers · surveyors · poll workers · counters · talliers · recorders · supervisors

computing

iterators

Sequential element accessors

  • loopsSelf-crossing curved shapes
  • arraysOrdered element collections
  • listsOrdered item collections

collections · indices · sequences · traversal · generators · counters · variables · data structures · algorithms · recursion

census

population

All inhabitants combined

citizenship · ethnicity · income · employment · housing · migration · birthrate · education · disability · headcount

counting

tallying

Summing items systematically

indexing · tabulating · recording · registering · compiling · quantifying · inventorying · accounting · totaling · reckoning

Categories
Opposites
precision of counting

enumeratorsestimators

Those who approximate values

guessers · projectors · forecasters · speculators · samplers

data collection role

enumeratorsrespondents

Those who answer queries

interviewees · subjects · participants · data sources · informants

specificity vs. generalization

enumeratorsaggregators

Services combining multiple sources

summarizers · generalizers · synthesizers · consolidators

Family

enumerator

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