census的意思|census的解释-里氏词典

census ['sɛnsəs]

n. 户口普查

vt. 实施统计调查

[医] 户口调查, 人口普查

[经] 调查报告, (调查得来的)统计数字

The census is taken one time every four years in our country.
我国每四年一次人口普查。
One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England
一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部的一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次统计。
According to the latest census, our population has increased.
根据最近调查，我国的人口有增加。

census

[ noun ]

a periodic count of the population

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

conduct a census

<verb.communication>

They censused the deer in the forest

Census \Cen"sus\, n. [L. census, fr. censere. See {Censor}.]
1. (Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of
their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; --
usually made once in five years.

2. An official registration of the number of the people, the
value of their estates, and other general statistics of a
country.

Note: A general census of the United States was first taken
in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten
years since.

According to the last census, for example, dropout rates in the region averaged 25 percent, compared with 20 percent nationally, and ran more than 40 percent in seven Delta counties.
They fear that new legislative districts drawn to reflect the 1990 census might not be in place in time for March 1992, and the current legislative districts favor Democrats.
The summit census nearly doubles what was the record 38 world leaders who met at the United Nations on its 40th anniversary in 1985.
Montana could lose one of its two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives because its population has remained steady since the 1980 census.
The Constitution requires seats in the House to be redistributed among states after each census.
As marketing lists become more complete and accurate, the IRS will become more able to combine them with census information to track people down."
He intends to enjoy the exercise. The starting point is the 6,000-odd government regulations turned up by a Whitehall census of red-tape.
But forms destined for people who have their mail sent to box numbers went out without the numbers, and the Postal Service was unable to deliver them, census officials said.
"There are things we think are happening but, come the '90 census, we'll find that some of that is wrong," Butz acknowledges.
The census is likely to fuel speculation of higher beef prices.
In Manchester, N.H., census takers failed to count a man who was sleeping on the steps of City Hall _ he was outside their survey area.
The work beginning Thursday covers more than 100 metropolitan areas across the nation, as counters try to track down folks who either didn't get a census form or failed to mail theirs back.
Soviet officials will conduct a census beginning Thursday that they say will give them a much broader understanding of the population and citizens' living conditions.
But even journalists for China's state-run media expressed skepticism, mindful of recent rumors that the census actually found the population to be 1.38 billion or higher.
"Hundreds of census tracts in low-income America did not receive a penny in mortgage loans," she said.
More than 27 per cent of Australians, or 4.6m people, gave this as their faith in the 1991 census, making it the country's largest religion. This was not always the case.
The first thing to understand about "family income" is that only 35% of the families counted by the census include any children; the other 65% constitute childless families and "unrelated individuals."
In the 1980 census, Atlanta ranked second to Newark, N.J., in having the nation's highest poverty rate.
Observed Rep. William R. Thomas, R-Calif.: "The census is a political act and there are winners and losers.
Bill Drake of the Game Commission, who supervised the census from a hangar at Saint Marys Airport, says, "For Pennsylvanians, elk are pretty impressive.
It would give Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher the assignment of adjusting the census figures so that illegal aliens don't count for purposes of redistributing House seats.
He said analysts expected an increase of 150,000 jobs, not counting the census workers for April.
MEXICO'S POPULATION GROWTH Despite a birth-control campaign through the 1980s, Mexico's population grew 16 million, or 25%, to 81 million in 1990, the census found.
While the exact shifts won't be known until after the census, the Population Reference Bureau and the private Election Data Service have projected changes based on recent Census Bureau population estimates.
The city's first census, conducted last year, found about 2,860 homeless, Stern said.
The last national census, taken in 1982, showed 3.6 million immigrants living in France.
New York won a suit for an undercount adjustment after the 1980 census, but the victory was overturned by a federal appeals court after the government argued it was not possible to make an accurate sampling because of technicalities.
By 1987, many census workers thought an adjustment could _ and should _ be made in 1990.
Census spokesman Miguel Rivera said African-American would be used in the 2000 census if there is sufficient demand.
Texas stands to pick up three or four U.S. House seats from redistricting based on the results of the 1990 census, and both parties want to have the governor on their side when the lines are redrawn.

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