Tejada says the government will hire about 800,000 enumerators nationwide, and Clinkenbeard estimates Cambridge will require at least 400.
Offices will rely primarily on those not in the regular workforce--including the elderly, part-time employees and college students--to serve as enumerators.
"Given an unemployment rate of under two percent in Cambridge, we are going to be relying heavily on part-time workers," Clinkenbeard says.
He says he hopes to attract at least several dozen Harvard students to work on campus and in Cambridge. Enumerators earn $15 per hour.
Enumerators are, however, a last resort. Clinkenbeard says a response returned by mail costs taxpayers about $3, but the cost of a response obtained by enumerators going door to door jumps to about $27.
Completing the Count
But Cambridge differs in two fundamental respects from most other cities of its size. Cambridge is home to a number of immigrant communities, making the city very linguistically diverse, and much of Cambridge's population is composed of transient college students.
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