Survey Interviewer
- Classification
- Occupation
- Skill level
- 5
- Major group
- Clerical and Administrative Workers
Classification
- Major group
- 5Clerical and Administrative Workers
- Sub-major group
- 56Clerical and Office Support Workers
- Minor group
- 561Clerical and Office Support Workers
- Unit group
- 5615Survey Interviewers
Description
Interviews people and records their responses to survey and market research questions on a range of topics. May work in a call centre.
Alternative titles
- Interviewer
Specialisations
- Market Research Interviewer
Unit group
5615 · Survey InterviewersDescription
Survey Interviewers interview people and record their responses to survey and market research questions on a range of topics.
Skill level
Australia
AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)
New Zealand
NZQF Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5) For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.
Occupation skill level 5
Tasks
Tasks include
- 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