census

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Rarely has a European government opened a diplomatic outpost so quickly to serve a territory whose latest census records just 24 French residents.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each creature at the zoo is logged as part of the yearly census, which is a licensing requirement and helps inform global conservation breeding programmes.

From BBC

The associate professor of sociology and faculty director of the UC Merced labor center based his analysis on U.S. census data from those months and published his findings over the summer.

From Los Angeles Times

The analysis showed that women who lived in the same census tract as at least one Superfund site were about 30% more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.

From Science Daily

A file from the 1960s details the plans for collecting the censuses of population in Northern Ireland in both 1961 and 1966.

From BBC