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census

[sen-suhs] / ˈsɛn səs /


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The district qualified because census takers grouped the retail corridor with adjacent poorer neighborhoods and relied only on residential data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Obura led a major reassessment of coral health published in Nature on Thursday that reported a sharp deterioration in reef-building species since the last global census in 2008.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Using their model alongside early census records, the researchers estimated that approximately 2.06 million excess deaths occurred between 1788 and 1861.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

She lives in Montreal which has a large Moroccan diaspora of about 104,000 people, according to the 2016 census.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The tide rolls with corporate fortunes and the global economy, and relos are not singled out in census statistics.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Researchers believe those lower estimates were influenced by the widespread population losses caused by disease, frontier violence, and systemic oppression before the earliest Australian censuses were conducted.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

A file from the 1960s details the plans for collecting the censuses of population in Northern Ireland in both 1961 and 1966.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

Between the censuses of 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans reporting that they belonged to more than one race jumped by 276%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

At 2.6%, it’s a slight gain over the 2.1% recorded in the 1990, 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

His Cange census allowed him to begin building files and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well his system was working.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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