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Also known as censuses, censusses, censi

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

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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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