census

The detailed questions asked during the census in England and Wales are set out in legislation following recommendations from the Office of National Statistics.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Official figures rank Papua New Guinea among the fastest growing countries in the world, although census data is notoriously unreliable in the South Pacific nation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

"Continued discoveries will allow us to complete the census of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way, which is a key to understanding how the faintest galaxies form."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

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

Each year it had made a census of the fish living in this stream.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

The proposal would change the residence rules used in recent censuses and the definition of “usual residence,” which has long been the standard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

They held six caste censuses between 1871 and 1931 - the last full caste enumeration in India.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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