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Definition of Censuses

1. census [v] - See also: census

Medical Definition of Censuses

1. Enumerations of populations usually recording identities of all persons in every place of residence with age or date of birth, sex, occupation, national origin, language, marital status, income, relation to head of household, information on the dwelling place, education, literacy, health-related data (e.g., permanent disability), etc. The census or "numbering of the people" is mentioned several times in the old testament. Among the romans, censuses were intimately connected with the enumeration of troops before and after battle and probably a military necessity. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Censuses

Literary usage of Censuses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vital Rates in India, 1961-1981 by P. N. Mari Bhat, Samuel H. Preston (1984)
"1.1 POPULATION censuses Since the first synchronous census in 1881, ... This series of decennial censuses is perhaps the single most important source of ..."

2. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1903)
"OCCUPATION AND MANUFACTURING censuses.1 NFORMATION as to the condition of the working population and of the industries of a country can be secured through ..."

3. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"AN ACT providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States, and to fix the numher of members of the House of ..."

4. Union--disunion--reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1886)
"It has already taken ten national censuses. All of these have had reference to the enumeration of the inhabitants required by the Federal Constitution to be ..."

5. The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward Lee Thorndike (1922)
"CHAPTER XII INTEREST IN ARITHMETIC censuses OF PUPILS' INTERESTS ... The censuses of pupils' likes and dislikes that have been made are not models of ..."

6. Causes of International Migration: Proceedings of a Workshop Luxembourg, 14 edited by Bob Vandererf, Liesbeth Heering (1996)
"Sources of stock data are usually population registers or censuses. ... 5.3.2.2 censuses Census data often miss large numbers of the foreign population or ..."

7. The Law of Population: A Treatise, in Six Books; in Disproof of the by Michael Thomas Sadler (1830)
"(1) THE censuses of the kingdom of the Netherlands, as recently published, may be said to embody the main exceptions from the principle of population now ..."

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