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census

noun as in head count

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Thai people are coded under broader categories like “Other Asian/Pacific Islander” in census surveys and are harder to track in county and state data systems.

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Hundreds of Indigenous groups live in Brazil, according to the country's census.

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President Emmanuel Macron’s administration is currently scrambling to take a census of the country’s most valuable artworks to determine which cultural sites will get reinforced first.

Mr Teltumbde sees the modern caste census as a colonial echo.

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First Minister John Swinney has pledged to get numbers back to 2023 levels – 54,033 – so all eyes will be on the annual teacher census statistics when they are released next month.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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