censuscen‧sus /ˈsensəs/ ●○○ noun (plural censuses) [countable] 
Word Origin
a traffic census
Word OriginWORD ORIGINcensus
ExamplesOrigin:
1600-1700 Latin censere ‘to make a judgment about, tax’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Collocations- When was the first U.S. census taken?
- Apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures is based on census data.
- For married women under 60 there was a five-fold increase from 12 percent in 1931 to 57 percent at the 1981 census.
- Full details of the 1979 census have been published.
- The government removed this question from its survey in the 1940 census.
- The total census of the towns comes to just under 300,000 people of whom some 60,000 were capable of bearing arms.
- Therefore it is in the states' interest to inflate census figures.
- You see, no real work can begin until a proper census is taken.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► survey/census data
1an official process of counting a country’s population and finding out about the people2an official process of counting something for government planning: (=produced in a survey or census)· Survey data show that people’s participation in sports rises with their level of income.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► national· A national census has been taken every decade since 1801, except for the year 1941 when Britain was at war.· The last national census which took place in 1981 provides information about the occupation of those residing in each locality.· However, the national census will go ahead on April 29.· These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census.· Britain submits to a national census.
► official· Lots of them-29m by the low-ball official census, with 1.2m more coming in each year.
NOUN► data· The Department of Health has signalled its intention to review the formula in the light of 1991 census data, again using small area analysis.· Apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures is based on census data.· Since then the assumptions underpinning, and the meanings attributed to, census data have changed a good deal.· I have reviewed census data and hundreds of reports and studies by economists and planners.· More people bring more power, which is why Republicans are salivating over the 2000 census data.· BFor businesses struggling to get some attention, the census data will help.
► figures· Therefore it is in the states' interest to inflate census figures.· We know enough by now to treat the census figures with the skepticism and the indignation they deserve.· Later census figures were published as they became available.· More than 97 percent of all San Francisco households have telephones, according to 1990 census figures.· This has obvious implications for services at a local level and provision needs to be related to regional trends and census figures.· Final census figures for 1991, published yesterday, showed 49,890,273 people in the two countries.· Using the 1734 census figures, this gives an average density of about 64-65 persons per square kilometre for the Piedmontese territories.
► tract· The variations in prosperity in the North Side become more acute when observed on the smaller scale of the census tract.· Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.· When census tracts are scrutinised in this neighbourhood a sharp division in experience becomes apparent.· When the data for census tracts are observed a marked discrepancy can be seen within East Allegheny.· There is less monitoring of such programmes at the micro-scale, that of the neighbourhood or census tract.
VERB► accord· More than 97 percent of all San Francisco households have telephones, according to 1990 census figures.· In 1994, according to our census, they made up 15 percent of the bee population.
► based· I mean the dollars that flow into our communities based on the census, that kind of thing.· Apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures is based on census data.
► conduct· Read in studio Conservationists are about to conduct a census of one of our rarest mammals - the dormouse.
► take· Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey; most of us will have taken part in the census.· Los Angeles took the census as its theme for its float in the Rose Bowl Parade.
a traffic census