Survey Interviewers

Survey Interviewers interview people and record their responses to survey and market research questions on a range of topics.

What the job involves

• Contacting people face-to-face and via the telephone to conduct surveys

• Recording answers to survey questions manually and electronically

• Recording the distribution of questionnaires

• Collecting questionnaires and returning them to supervisors

• Scanning questionnaires to ensure that important questions have been answered

• May interview people at random in crowds and on the street

• May provide self-completion questionnaires

• May encode responses and check their consistency

• May work in a call centre