Censuses

thumb|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 information about the members of a given population, which are then usually displayed through statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features

phenomenon

enrollment of the Roman provinces of Syria and Judaea for tax purposes taken in 6/7 CE

financial record of the real estate revenues of the papacy from 492 to 1192

city proper

statistics term; information at the level of individual respondents