census
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- noun
- /ˈsɛn.səs/
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censo
- I'm here to collect data for the 2010 census.
- census data
- census records
- census tract
If you end a count weeks early, you're not doing a census.
- If you end a count weeks early, you're not doing a census.
- That's called the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, and it is a revisions adjustment.
- One is just the census tract, OK, which you know, is updated regularly, as you know.
- Among the findings in our study is a census of institutions that grant degrees in business of one kind or other.
- So what I want you to do, can you write down a lower bound and an upper bound for the world population this morning as measured by the US Census?
- According to Luke, they've made a trip down to register for a census because Joseph is from the lineage of King David, who was born in Bethlehem.
- These guys took the census data from the United States to find out, well, how much money are people actually making?
- It's having a census that counts us and divvies up our power and our economic capacity equally and fairly.
- I hope that they're going to wait the census for the next Congress and move and save places like California and New York from losing congressional seats.
Examples
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Among the findings in our study is a census of institutions that grant degrees in business of one kind or other.
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The example I like to cite in Manhattan, which, in the 1855 census, one quarter of all Manhattan was Irish born.
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These guys took the census data from the United States to find out, well, how much money are people actually making?
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Thank you for taking us here to be counted in the census.
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I'm preparing a census for the government.
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So I mentioned Germany, in Canada, the census takers go out not only to take the census, but to register people to vote.
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A comparison of the weighted demographic data with 2009 census data from the American Community Survey found few differences.
Academic text (2011) -
He has taken data from the US Census and the Centers for Disease Control, and he is real data, real data or data, whatever you prefer.
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No one with the surname Arista appears on United Kingdom census records until 1891.
Academic text (2011) -
The government will conduct the census every ten years to gather population data.
Synonyms
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The number of things or people that have been counted
Compounds
- Formal
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A United States government office that counts people and records facts about them
- Formal
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A government agency that counts people in the United States every ten years and gives population data
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Census comes from the Latin censere 'to count or assess' and from the lists Romans kept of their citizens. Roman officials called censors recorded who lived where and what they owned, so a census today is still an official count or list of people.