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  2. Population and housing censuses by country - Wikipedia

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    The census in Sri Lanka is carried out by the Department of Census and Statistics every 10 years, with the next one being planned for 2011. [88] The 2011 one being the first post-war census in three decades. The census will cover all Grama Niladhari (GN) divisions of the country. The first scientific census in Sri Lanka was conducted on March ...

  3. Census - Wikipedia

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    A census taker visits a family of Indigenous Dutch Travellers living in a caravan in the Netherlands in 1925. A census (from Latin censere, 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given population, usually displayed in the form of statistics.

  4. Category:Censuses by country - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Censuses by country" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... 1957 Iraqi census; 2002 Tanzanian census; 2018 Colombian ...

  5. United States census - Wikipedia

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    The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States. It takes place every ten years. It takes place every ten years. The first census after the American Revolution was taken in 1790 under Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson .

  6. IPUMS - Wikipedia

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    IPUMS, originally the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, [1] is the world's largest individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States (IPUMS-USA) and international (IPUMS-International) census records, as well as data from U.S. and international surveys.

  7. State censuses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven questions — name, sex, age, color (race), country of birth, citizenship status, and occupation. [18] Meanwhile, the censuses from 1905 to 1925 asked for relationships of people to each other but also only asked for a country of birth. [15]

  8. Race and ethnicity in censuses - Wikipedia

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    Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.

  9. Vital statistics (government records) - Wikipedia

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    A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...