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census

[sen-suhs] / ˈsɛn səs /


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The immigration decline was enough to tip the most-populous state, California, into a slight population loss, according to the census estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal

To understand who faces the greatest risks, the researchers combined their pollution estimates with U.S. census data and mortality statistics at the census tract level.

From Science Daily

Rarely has a European government opened a diplomatic outpost so quickly to serve a territory whose latest census records just 24 French residents.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each creature at the zoo is logged as part of the yearly census, which is a licensing requirement and helps inform global conservation breeding programmes.

From BBC

The associate professor of sociology and faculty director of the UC Merced labor center based his analysis on U.S. census data from those months and published his findings over the summer.

From Los Angeles Times