[en] Radiation dose to personnel on the ground contaminated with radioactive cesium after nuclear power plant accident depends on cesium activity, depth profile of the activity, and soil mass density. A dosimetry method was developed to calculate radiation dose resulting from external exposure to radioactive cesium in soil with arbitrary depth profile. Dose conversion coefficients to calculate effective dose based on cesium radioactivity in soil were produced by using a radiation transport code. The dose conversion coefficient was produced for each 1 cm thickness disk source by soil depth by changing soil mass density from 0.5 to 2 g/cm³. Radiation dose due to a volumetric source can be calculated with summation of radiation doses from multiple thin disk sources. When radioactive cesium is distributed within 0-1 cm depth of soil with mass density of 1 g/cm³, effective dose conversion coefficients were 6.2 × 10^-6 and 2.4 × 10^-6 mSv/h per kBq/m² for ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs nuclides, respectively. Effective doses decreased exponentially with increasing soil depth or mass density. Radiation dose on the contaminated ground can be calculated with the dose database established in this study for any shape of depth profile. (author)