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Censuses  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Census

Note

  • for modern & hist censuses; IM; specify geog

Scope note

  • Enumerations of populations usually recording identities of all persons in every place of residence with age or date of birth, sex, occupation, national origin, language, marital status, income, relation to head of household, information on the dwelling place, education, literacy, health-related data (e.g., permanent disability), etc. The census or "numbering of the people" is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. Among the Romans, censuses were intimately connected with the enumeration of troops before and after battle and probably a military necessity. (From Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 3d ed; Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p66, p119)

History note

  • 97; CENSUS was see DEMOGRAPHY 1990-96

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