census-taking

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Nearly half of today’s identified colonies were discovered in the last 15 years by Fretwell, who pioneered the science of penguin census-taking by satellite.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“After 200 years of census-taking and 30 census directors, I was the 31st director and the first woman, so that heightened my visibility a little,” she said in a 1993 oral history for the bureau.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

In April, 2020 Census state population totals showed the United States grew by just 7.4 percent in the past decade, more slowly than any decade except the 1930s since census-taking started in 1790.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

Supervisors stopped interviews after deciding to wind up census-taking in that area, standard practice when a deadline looms and the remaining uncounted households seem unreachable.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2020

Under the head of occupation, the bread-winner is distinguished from his dependants and is returned as employer, employed, or working on his own account, as is now the usual practice in census-taking.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various