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census

noun as in head count

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Typically, it’s an arcane and extremely nerdy process that occurs once a decade, after the census, and mainly draws attention from a small priesthood of line-drawing experts and political obsessives.

Figures from the Scottish teacher census show computing teacher numbers have been falling since at least 2008.

From BBC

The water district has conducted a Joshua tree census and paid a security, Ellsworth said.

But lawmakers drew a map where 23 of the 38 congressional districts had white majorities, even though in the 2020 census, white and Hispanic Texans constituted roughly equal shares of the total population.

From Salon

When the next congressional reapportionment happens after the 2030 census, red states stand to make huge gains.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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