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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

Public records, obituaries, and census data build that map so Othram's scientists can establish how different family trees connect.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

With census data showing there are about 73 million children in the U.S. and SpaceX closing at $147.96 Monday, Musk’s pledge would be worth close to $11 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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

Of the 30,000 people who live in the Links’ census tract, 75 percent were born outside Georgia.

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

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

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

As of 2020, Christians comprised 47% of the global migrant population, Muslims 29%, Hindus 5%, Buddhists 4% and Jews 1%, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of UN data and 270 censuses and surveys.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024

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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