censusDefinition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation, searchNouncensus (plural censuses)
Verbto census (third-person singular simple present censuses, present participle censusing, simple past and past participle censused)
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic. In the latter cases the elements of the 'population' are farms/businesses/etc rather than people. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses are taken at least every 10 years. The term itself comes from Latin: during the Roman Republic the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service. The census can be contrasted with sampling in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population, sometimes as an Intercensal estimate. Census data is commonly used for research, business marketing, and planning as well as a base for sampling surveys. In some countries, census data is used to apportion electoral representation (sometimes controversially - e.g. see Utah v. Evans). From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How to get sexual orientation on the Census questionnaire? Q. I emailed the Customer Service Center at the Census Bureau asking what would be the procedure to add Sexual Orientation in the demographics section (alongside race, sex, age, marital status) of the Census questionaire. Robert Clair of the Census Bureau replied to me that it won't ever happen because "behavioral or preference issues are not really the domain or purpose of the decennial census program." He suggested I write to my Congressional representatives and to the US Office of Management and Budget. Wow. Sexual orientation is not included because the Census Bureau considers being homo a choice. Any ideas of what to do in addition to contacting the Senators and Reps and the US Office of Management and Budget? Being homo is not a… [cont.] Asked by bikerchickjill - Tue Sep 25 19:37:19 2007 - - 4 Answers - 8 Comments A. You got to kind of ask this of yourself, they ask for race because?, they ask for sex because? they ask etc. because? They do not ask you do you like being Black, White, etc. They do not ask you do you like being a Man or a Women(though that can be a preference to some), do you like being _yrs old. I think they only want to ask things that cant change, know I "think" homosexuality is not a choice, but it can be changed, or persuaded. I know of homosexuals who have decided to not act on there homosexual tendencies, if you will, and remain "straight". I really don't know, it doesn't ask if you smoke, so maybe they don't car about preferences, and you got to remember that census are not profiles on dating sites. Though census are like… [cont.] Answered by milwaukeepdidie - Tue Sep 25 19:54:56 2007 Do you think the Census will REALLY find the exact population of the world? Q. Do you think the Census will really find the exact population of the world for 2010? A baby is born every every half second. The hospitals will report it, but I really don't think the Census will catch up because the population will increase every half second. Asked by Pokemon Fan - Sun May 3 15:54:01 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Uhhh... the 2010 census is just for the United States of America, not for the world. No census is "exact"... you must have lost your senses with this question!!! Answered by DrJ - Sun May 3 16:47:53 2009 What happens if you dont fill out census?
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