561511-Survey Interviewer

ANZSCO code: 
561511
Alternate Titles: 

Interviewer

Job Title: 

Survey Interviewer

Job Description: 

Interviews people and records their responses to survey and market research questions on a range of topics. May work in a call centre.

Specializations: 

Market Research Interviewer

Tasks: 
  • 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
Job Group: 

5

Skills: 

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications outlined below.

In Australia

AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)

In New Zealand

NZ Register 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.

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Source Of Info: 

Reference Australian Bureau of Statistics
1220.0 - ANZSCO -- Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2013, Version 1.730