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an official count of a population (often accompanied by collection of other data)

It is difficult to count all the homeless when performing the census.

Texas is expected to gain seats in Congress after the next census.
In the following year the government was going to take a census, including the contaminated zones if possible.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
The estimates most often cited are based on a census conducted by the Belgians near the end of colonization.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Especially since the last census.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Someone answered the door, and the family, thinking that he was a census taker, invited him in.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Roscoe, New York, is a hamlet in New York State, which according to a recent census contains 261 households.
John Green -- Paper Towns
Last week's census showed about two thirds of those'd been recalled in the past month or so.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
We discussed how I was to be fed and how I should manage about the census when it took place next day.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Amongst civilized nations it is easy to obtain an accurate census of the inhabitants; but the two others cannot be determined with so much facility.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
It had 162 inhabitants in 1950 and 124 at the last census—and so much for the population explosion at Alice.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
An actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectually shuts the door to partiality or oppression.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
The population will be determined by a census.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Farmer began modestly, with a preliminary health census.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
"Just taking a census," Bellamy replied.
Kass Morgan -- The 100
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
United States 'Founding Fathers' -- The Constitution of the United States
Just a lot of kids and some older folks who haven't had a job or a haircut since the last census.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

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