census
Sign in to savethumb|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
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A census is a systematic process of collecting, recording, and analyzing information about the people in a population, with the results typically presented as statistics. Censuses are most commonly used to gather national data about population and housing, though they can also be conducted for agriculture, business, and other purposes, and are considered important enough that the United Nations has defined standards for how they should be conducted.
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- History
- Iran
- Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Israel
- China
- India
- Rome
- Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates
- Medieval Europe
- Inca Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Sampling
- Residence definitions
- Enumeration strategies
- Technology
- Development
- Uses of data
- Research
- Privacy and data stewardship
- Boycotts
- World population estimates
- Impact of COVID-19
- Impact
- Adaptation
- Modern implementation
- See also
- Sources
- Notes
- References
- External links
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 of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines the census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering the whole or a significant part of a country." "In a census of agriculture, data are collected at the holding level."