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census

noun as in head count

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This was partly the result of years of high levels of emigration from Ireland to the US - the 1930 US census recorded 923,600 residents who were born on the island of Ireland.

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Forest Service researchers found that “new fire regimes are increasingly affecting more urban census tracts statewide, meaning greater numbers and more diverse groups of people are being and possibly will be affected by wildfires.”

The Scottish government's Health and Wellbeing census hit the headlines in 2021 after asking pupils as young as 14 about their sexual experiences.

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The Scottish government "need to do better" in how sensitive information is gathered from schoolchildren after access to a controversial census on sexual experiences was halted.

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The Scottish government's Health and Wellbeing census hit the headlines in 2021 after asking highly personal questions of more than 130,000 school children, raising concerns among education experts and families.

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

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