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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Demography > Censuses
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Censuses
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Censuses
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Censuses

Preferred term

Censuses  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Enumerations of populations usually recording identities of all persons in every place of residence with age or date of birth, sex, occupation, national origin, language, marital status, income, relation to head of household, information on the dwelling place, education, literacy, health-related data (e.g., permanent disability), etc. The census or "numbering of the people" is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. Among the Romans, censuses were intimately connected with the enumeration of troops before and after battle and probably a military necessity. (From Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 3d ed; Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p66, p119)

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Entry terms

  • Census

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-PT8HN00M-K

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