TRAINING

The training program for the 2004 Census started with the placement of two Training Managers in the NSD in early 2004. Subsequently, 15 District Trainers were recruited and trained in Dili for a period of one month. They then commenced recruitment and training-of-trainer activities in their respective districts in May 2004.

Fifteen District Managers were appointed, 3 from NSD, 11 from Statistics New Zealand and 1 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The district Managers from New Zealand and Australia were recruited as UN Volunteers (UNVs). They began their two weeks orientation and briefing on 19 May 2004, and then proceeded out to their districts on 1 May.

The field collection team for the census was to comprise more than 3,500 Timorese nationals who were to be working throughout every district in Timor-Leste. The first group recruited was the previously mentioned 15 District Trainers, whose main task after their own training was to recruit and train 75 Sub-district Trainers. These second tier-trainers would have responsibility for providing census training to Team Leaders and Field Interviewers.