While enumerating an address on the caselist, the enumerator is at the question that asks the occupants’ origin and race. The respondent asks why that type of personal information is collected. What should the enumerator do?

The interviewer should explain that questions about origin and race are important to build a demographic census and better understand the population of the community.

Explanation:

Demographic census is a statistical study of the population of a region. It allows various information about how the population is formed, allowing improvements and adaptations to be made to improve the experience of different people. For this reason, governmental questionnaires on health, education, among others, often have questions such as origins and races, which seem to be very personal questions, but which allow valuable conclusions about how the population is formed.

answer; earthquake;

muslims have taken his goods and products to different parts of asia an indonesia. sometimes just traveled and trade, but in other occasions, stayed in the place and made a living.

trade was the key for muslims economies to prosper. their commerce routes reached far places like malaysia and java in the 11th century.

another important factor for prosperity was that muslim states served as the middle point for european traders.

they used to travel by land but sailing the seas -the indian ocean- really increase the exportation of products.