Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Censuses

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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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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6 entry terms
  • Census
  • Census Methods
  • Microcensus
  • Census Method
  • Method, Census
  • Methods, Census

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1 allowable subheadings

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Indexing Annotation

for modern & hist censuses; IM; specify geog

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History Note

97; CENSUS was see DEMOGRAPHY 1990-96

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Previous Indexing

  • Demography (1966-1996)

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  1. I01w.240w.205w
  2. N01.224w.175w
  3. N06.850w.505.400w.225w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Censuses. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019352. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019352
  2. Censuses. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census
  3. Censuses. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39825