censuses
Official population tallies
Censuses is the plural of census, an official count of a population.
Governments conduct censuses to gather demographic data—age, income, household size, ethnicity—for planning and resource allocation.
The U.S.
Constitution mandates a census every ten years.
Historical censuses reveal migration patterns.
Census can also mean any systematic count: a census of wildlife in the region.
All inhabitants combined
- countReckon a total
- headcountTotal of individuals present
- tallyRecorded count
- enumerationSequential listing of items
survey · questionnaire · household · respondent · canvassing · door-to-door · interview · sampling
Office or furniture chest
- federalDivided governmental authority
- nationalOf a country
- decennialEvery ten years
- mandatoryRequired by rule
citizenship · redistricting · apportionment · congressional · seats · representation · funding · allocation
1086 English land survey
- ancientVery old indeed
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- colonialOf occupied territories
- archiveStored historical records
genealogy · ancestry · tracing · records · 1790 · decennial · historical · lineage
Statistical population category
- ageDuration of existence
- raceCompetition of speed
- ethnicityShared cultural heritage group
- incomeRegular monetary receipts
occupation · education · housing · marital · gender · birthplace · language · migration
Multinational peacekeeping body
- internationalConcerning relations among countries
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
- ChinaEast Asian superpower
- BrazilLargest South American nation
Nigeria · Canada · Australia · UK · developing · nations · comparative · worldwide
population
All inhabitants combined
enumeration · survey · questionnaire · household · respondent · canvassing · door-to-door · interview · sampling · demographic
bureau
Office or furniture chest
mandatory · citizenship · redistricting · apportionment · congressional · seats · representation · funding · allocation · planning
Domesday
1086 English land survey
archive · genealogy · ancestry · tracing · records · 1790 · decennial · historical · lineage · family
demographic
Statistical population category
income · occupation · education · housing · marital · gender · birthplace · language · migration · fertility
UN
Multinational peacekeeping body
- internationalConcerning relations among countries
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
- ChinaEast Asian superpower
Brazil · Nigeria · Canada · Australia · UK · developing · nations · comparative · worldwide · standardization
- English Recordsparish records, public records, land records, court rolls, Domesday Book
- historical recordsdiary, annual reviews, letter, government records, ledger
- tabulationstables, tallies, tallying, tabulating, totals
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
- manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
censusessamples
Small test portions
sampling · random samples · estimates · surveys · polls
censusesestimates
Rough calculations of value
approximations · guesses · projections · extrapolations · ballpark figures
- census recordsOfficial population survey documents
- census formsGovernment population survey documents
- national censusNationwide population count
- census figuresOfficial population statistics
- US CensusDecennial population survey
- U.S. CensusOfficial American population count