| 词汇 | census |
| 释义 | census noun[ C ] uk /ˈsen.səs/ us /ˈsen.səs/ a count for official purposes, especially one to count the number of people living in a country and to collect information about them: （官方的）调查，统计;（尤指）人口普查 We have a census in this country every ten years.我们在这个国家每10年进行一次人口普查。 She was stopped in her car for a traffic census.她被拦下来接受交通情况调查。 Numbering & counting absolute difference absolute value accession number binary count count something out countdown decimal decimal fraction hex hexadecimal innumeracy modulus number line numerical ternary tot tot something up undercount unduplicated census | American Dictionarycensus noun[ C ] us/ˈsen·səs/ politics & government a count for official purposes, esp. one to count the number of people living in a country and to obtain information such as age, sex, race, etc. census | Business Englishcensus noun[ C ] uk /ˈsensəs/us an occasion when people or things are officially counted, especially when the people in a country or particular area are counted and general information about them is recorded. The report listing this information is also called a census: national/state/government censusAccording to the state census, 89.6% of eligible Hispanics voters were registered. carry out/conduct/perform a censusA national census is carried out every ten years. Data on the number of commuters was collected in a traffic census. The census of 1901 is now available to be searched online. Examples of censuscensus The generalizations are advanced on the basis of statistical data from the population census of 1897 in combination with other quantitative and qualitative sources. The census returns indicate that many of those single solitaries - though some of the married ones also - were inmigrants. The trap and its surrounding plots comprise a census station. To conduct such work, information derived from single census-type listings is not sufficient. Both the profiles of neighborhood experience and a measure of census-tract-level neighborhood hazard (poverty and violence) showed relationships to antisocial behavior. In census debates, for example, nobody ever argues that populations are inherently nonquantitative, or that demographic numbers are mere fictions. This was also used to define the actual (de hecho) and legal (de derecho) populations when the census was taken. Three census days were realized in each plot during the same month as captures. To accomplish this, we first listed the other census tracts that surrounded each of the 177 residential census tracts. Since this measure is computed from census statistics, it is affected by differences in enumeration errors and in mortality and migration. Linked with marriage statistics subsequent to the census date, the estimates can provide approximations to marriage rates of pregnant and/or non-pregnant non-married women. Many scholars have theorized on the emergence of census practices from the colonial/subject viewpoint. The census figures reveal not only dramatic population losses in most rural and mountain areas, but also the resulting much older age structure. The five baits inspected at any given census were randomly selected from those baits that had not been previously examined. Where material from more than one source exists, the census description has been used. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcensuscensusThese are words often used in combination with census. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. agricultural census However, in the 1996 agriculturalcensus, a question was asked as to 'whether the agricultural holding used pesticides or not'. census block Socioeconomic variables were obtained by linking addresses with 1997 census block group data. census data Finally, some issues arise with regard to the interpretation of the censusdata. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with census |
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