0 a count for official purposes, especially one to count the number of people living in a country and to collect information about them: --
1 a count for official purposes, esp. one to count the number of people living in a country and to obtain information such as age, sex, race, etc. --
2 an occasion when people or things are officially counted, especially when the people in a country or particular area are counted and general information about them is recorded. The report listing this information is also called a census: --
A national census of the tenants of the institutions for continuing care and assisted living programs 1990.
The census figures reveal not only dramatic population losses in most rural and mountain areas, but also the resulting much older age structure.
Many scholars have theorized on the emergence of census practices from the colonial/subject viewpoint.
Linked with marriage statistics subsequent to the census date, the estimates can provide approximations to marriage rates of pregnant and/or non-pregnant non-married women.
Since this measure is computed from census statistics, it is affected by differences in enumeration errors and in mortality and migration.
To accomplish this, we first listed the other census tracts that surrounded each of the 177 residential census tracts.
Three census days were realized in each plot during the same month as captures.
This was also used to define the actual (de hecho) and legal (de derecho) populations when the census was taken.
