Meaning of census in English
census | American Dictionary
(Definition of census from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
census | Business English
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:
national/state/government census According to the state census, 89.6% of eligible Hispanics voters were registered.
Examples of census
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The generalizations are advanced on the basis of statistical data from the population census of 1897 in combination with other quantitative and qualitative sources.
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The census returns indicate that many of those single solitaries - though some of the married ones also - were inmigrants.
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The trap and its surrounding plots comprise a census station.
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To conduct such work, information derived from single census-type listings is not sufficient.
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Both the profiles of neighborhood experience and a measure of census-tract-level neighborhood hazard (poverty and violence) showed relationships to antisocial behavior.
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In census debates, for example, nobody ever argues that populations are inherently nonquantitative, or that demographic numbers are mere fictions.
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This was also used to define the actual (de hecho) and legal (de derecho) populations when the census was taken.
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Three census days were realized in each plot during the same month as captures.
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To accomplish this, we first listed the other census tracts that surrounded each of the 177 residential census tracts.
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Since this measure is computed from census statistics, it is affected by differences in enumeration errors and in mortality and migration.
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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.
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Many scholars have theorized on the emergence of census practices from the colonial/subject viewpoint.
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The census figures reveal not only dramatic population losses in most rural and mountain areas, but also the resulting much older age structure.
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The five baits inspected at any given census were randomly selected from those baits that had not been previously examined.
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Where material from more than one source exists, the census description has been used.
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Collocations with census
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These are words often used in combination with census.
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agricultural census
However, in the 1996 agricultural census, a question was asked as to 'whether the agricultural holding used pesticides or not'.
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census block
Socioeconomic variables were obtained by linking addresses with 1997 census block group data.
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census data
Finally, some issues arise with regard to the interpretation of the census data.
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nüfus sayımı, sayım…
recensement [masculine], recensement…
国勢調査（こくせい ちょうさ）…
volkstelling…
sčítání lidu…
folketælling…
cacah jiwa, sensus…
การสำรวจจำนวนประชากร…
sự điều tra dân số…
spis ludności, spis…
banci…
die Volkszählung…
folketelling [masculine], folketelling, manntall…
перепис…
перепись населения…
