CENSUS

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years. United Nations recommendations also ...

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census

Noun

  1. An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

Verb

  1. To collect a census.


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