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Census

The official counting of people to coml pile social and economic data for the political subdivision to which the people belong. Pl. cen. suses. federal census. A census of a state or terri-, tory, or a portion of either, taken by the Census Bureau of the United States. ( The l Constitution (art. I, § 2) requires only a simple count of persons for purposes of apportioning congressional representation among, the states. Under Congress's direction, however, the census has evolved to include a wide variety of information that is useful to businesses, historians, and others not affiliated with the federal government.

federal census

See CENSUS.