A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. In the latter cases the elements of the 'population' are farms, businesses, and so forth, rather than people. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years.
The word is of Latin origin; during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service. The modern census is essential to international comparisons of any kind of statistics and censuses collect data on many attributes of the population, not just how many people they are, although population estimates remain an important function of the census. Recommendations of census topics, official classifications and even question wordings are available to coordinate international practice. and facilitate the exchange of information on census.
It's everything you thought they'd like
Just a wake of strangled stars and stripes
You're a paper head on a back bone of fire
Always asleep but never tired
Such a social heart
You can wrap it up
It takes too much to hide
In your afterlife
We watch the crashing sky till three
On the radio they found your keys
So super dazed by what you carry
And free as trees, bright and buried
You can't think straight
You can't think straight
Such a social heart
You can wrap it up
It takes too much to hide