census

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From the 1970s onwards, the census took on a distinctly socio-economic lens.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

In the latest census, a couple in a live-in relationship can be recorded as married if they consider their "relationship as a stable union" - signalling a quiet shift towards recognising changing social realities.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

In more recent decades, especially in 2001 and 2011, the census has tracked the modernising economy: commuting patterns, marginal versus main work, education attendance and increasingly detailed disability and fertility data.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

India's transgender population was estimated at nearly 500,000 in the 2011 census, although activists say stigma and underreporting mask the true figure.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

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