The Nunavut Housing Corp. is launching its first comprehensive survey of the territory's housing needs, but not all communities are being surveyed right away.

The housing corporation has teamed up with the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics and Statistics Canada to conduct the survey, with the goal of interviewing homeowners and renters in all of the territory's 25 communities.

Interviewers are already conducting the survey in some communities, such as Iqaluit, but organizers have not yet hired people to administer the survey in all communities.

They also have yet to select community-based staff who will work with the interviewers conducting the survey, said Stephanie Langlois of the statistics bureau.

"It's not an easy job to be a survey interviewer, so I hope people will be understanding, and especially at the beginning," Langlois told CBC News.

"The survey interviewers will probably be a little bit ... nervous and, you know, maybe a little bit confused sometimes with the questionnaire and things like that."

Langlois said interviewers will start with 13 communities in the immediate future, before the Christmas holidays, and expand to the remaining communities by February.

Nunavummiut are being asked to complete a questionnaire. Langlois said the questions will differ depending on whether the survey respondents own or rent their homes.

Survey organizers are aiming to interview at least 85 per cent of people in the territory.