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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

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Latest revision as of 06:22, 5 February 2010

Census area  (CENSUS area)


Census operations 1 usually begin with the delimitation of census areas 2 and enumeration districts 3. Enumeration districts in towns and cities may consist of one or several blocks 4, a block being defined as a group of buildings around which it is possible to walk without crossing a street, or which are bounded by some obstacle, such as a railway line or a river. Most of the larger cities of several countries have been subdivided into statistical areas called census tracts 5 which may contain one or several enumeration districts. More...