Crossword clues for census
census
- It's all about counting heads
- Big count
- Year 2010 event
- Decennial event
- 2010 U.S. count
- Year 2000 event
- The next United States one will be in 2010
- The next U.S. one will be in 2020
- Snapshot taken at ten-year intervals
- Population-counting survey
- Population profile
- Periodical population count
- Once-a-decade event
- Once-a-decade count
- Large-scale head count
- Event for an enumerator
- Decennial headcount
- Count every 10 years
- Commerce Department chore
- 2020 U.S. event
- Public record?
- A period count of the population
- National head count
- U.S.A. comes to its ___ every 10 years
- Dept. of Commerce chore
- Head count
- Dept. of Commerce bureau
- Event in 1980
- Count coppers guarding first of electricity poles
- Official list of people in Central and South America
- Official count
- Official body count?
- Saracen suspected accommodating count
- From announcement, understand our group count nationally?
- After hearing, understand America’s head count
- Population survey
- Population count
- Population count in North and South America by church
- Become aware of us, say, in survey
- Decennial count
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Census \Cen"sus\, n. [L. census, fr. censere. See Censor.]
(Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
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An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
Note: A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin census "the enrollment of the names and property assessments of all Roman citizens," originally past participle of censere "to assess" (see censor (n.)). The modern census begins in the U.S., 1790., and Revolutionary France. Property for taxation was the primary purpose in Rome, hence Latin census also was used for "one's wealth, one's worth, wealthiness."
Wiktionary
n. An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. vb. To collect a census.
WordNet
n. a period count of the population [syn: nose count, nosecount]
v. conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest"
Wikipedia
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 cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practice.
The word is of Latin origin: during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service. The modern census is essential to international comparisons of any kind of statistics, and censuses collect data on many attributes of a population, not just how many people there are but now census takes its place within a system of surveys where it typically began as the only national demographic data collection. Although population estimates remain an important function of a census, including exactly the geographic distribution of the population, statistics can be produced about combinations of attributes e.g. education by age and sex in different regions. Current administrative data systems allow for other approaches to enumeration with the same level of detail but raise concerns about privacy and the possibility of biasing estimates.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) explains that, “A traditional population and housing census requires mapping an entire country, figuring out what technologies should be employed, mobilizing and training legions of enumerators, conducting a major public campaign, canvassing all households, collecting individual information, compiling hundreds of thousands – or millions – of completed questionnaires, monitoring procedures and results, and analyzing and disseminating the data.”
A census can be contrasted with sampling in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population, typically main population estimates are updated by such intercensal estimates. Modern census data are commonly used for research, business marketing, and planning, and as a baseline for designing sample surveys by providing a sampling frame such as an address register. Census counts are necessary to adjust samples to be representative of a population by weighting them as is common in opinion polling. Similarly, stratification requires knowledge of the relative sizes of different population strata which can be derived from census enumerations. In some countries, the census provides the official counts used to apportion the number of elected representatives to regions (sometimes controversially – e.g., Utah v. Evans). In many cases, a carefully chosen random sample can provide more accurate information than attempts to get a population census.
Usage examples of "census".
Very little careful examination would have sufficed to find, in the second section of the very first article of the Constitution, the names of every one of the thirteen then existent States distinctly mentioned, with the number of representatives to which each would be entitled, in case of acceding to the Constitution, until a census of their population could be taken.
Setting aside these theories, however, the census of French centenarians is not devoid of interest in some of its details.
Costa Rica days who knew a woman who knew a man who had a freemartin neuter companion who had formerly belonged to someone high up in the Census Department.
For all Hiro knows, this hypercard might contain all the books in the Library of Congress, or every episode of Hawaii Five-O that was ever filmed, or the complete recordings of Jimi Hendrix, or the 1950 Census.
Later, Jaschke would feed the data to Kindy, and Kindy might be able to see connections between the census data and his own observations.
The unofficial census estimated that there were another 50,000 Loonies living off in the hills.
The census taken by order of Meules in 1686 gives a total of 885 persons, of whom 592 were at Port Royal, and 127 at Beaubassin.
Chokoloskee boys called me mulatta, and they got that put down in the 1880 census.
My Mary, she tells our kids I am Indin, but when we are drunk and get to scrapping, she likes to recall how her daddy swore I was mulatta, and got that writ for all to see right on the 1880 census.
The last state census accords to Pocock Island a population of 311, mostly engaged in the porgy fisheries.
Madison was so strict a separationist, in fact, that he even opposed counting clergy as part of the first census.
Bureau of the Census report, the poorest community in the United States is Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi.
According to the Wisk 1995 Cleaning Census, 38 percent of Americans who do laundry at least once a month are very or somewhat worried that home entertaining may ruin their possessions.
Thus all the men who qualified at the census as knights were accommodated within the First Class.
The thin margin of their prosperity and the absurdity of calling them exploiters was revealed in Soviet census data examined by Richard Pipes, showing that only 2 percent of peasant households had any hired help, and these averaged one employee each.