1982 Population and Housing Census: Enumerator Instruction Manual (in Haitian Creole)

This IHSI enumerator manual documents field instructions for Haiti's 1982 General Population and Housing Census. The text is presented in Haitian Creole with French equivalents, making it both a statistical field instrument and evidence of official census communication in the language used by enumerators and respondents. It defines a census as a set of activities used to collect, group, evaluate, analyze and publish important demographic, economic and social information about a population at a given date. It instructs enumerators to keep the guide with them, work under supervisor control, take full responsibility for assigned enumeration sections, ask questions of the household head or another capable member, maintain confidentiality, not delegate their work, require truthful answers, verify each questionnaire at the end of the interview, avoid unnecessary conversation, and record responses carefully.

The manual cites the 7 January 1982 decree ordering the population and housing census and requiring Haitian citizens and foreigners in the territory to cooperate. Later pages include guidance on rent in gourdes, work time, children ever born, central-office processing of more than 1 million completed questionnaires, and age-estimation appendices using Haitian historical events and presidential mandates.