census returns
Official population data
Census returns are the completed forms or records submitted in response to an official population count.
The term typically refers to historical census documents now available for genealogical research: She found her great-grandparents in the 1910 census returns.
Returns here carries its sense of something sent back to an authority.
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- population countEnumeration of inhabitants
- enumerationSequential listing of items
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- head of householdFamily's chief decision-maker
headcount · demographics · survey · door to door · records · old records · statistics · genealogy · family tree · ancestry · birthplace · place of birth · occupation · dwelling · marital status · enumerator · decennial · tabulation