census

(noun)

An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

Related Terms

Examples of census in the following topics:

  • Researching Consumer Markets

    • An example of the government researching consumer markets is the US Census.

  • Sampling

    • Typically, the population is very large, making a census or a complete enumeration of all the values in the population impractical or impossible.
    • Researchers rarely survey the entire population because the cost of a census is too high.

  • Economic Indicators

    • Other producers of economic indicators includes the United States Census Bureau and United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.

  • A South Dakota Library's Lessons for Business

    • The 2000 US Census tallied 764,309 people and 24,032 "private non-farm establishments with paid employees" in South Dakota—I guess that means "businesses."