What's the difference between census and population?

Census


Definition:

  • (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
  • (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (2) This has been done for the census years 1960, 1970, 1975 and 1980.
  • (3) To determine whether virulence might be related to C. albicans growth in different proteolytic environments, we measured renal fungal load in burned mice and found significantly greater Candida census in kidneys from mice that were challenged with a high proteinase-generating parent C. albicans (MY 1044) versus those that were challenged with its low proteinase-generating mutant (MY 1049).
  • (4) --The study was based on data collected by the US Bureau of the Census in the March 1991 Current Population Survey for six groups of workers in health care occupations and three classifications of insurance employees.
  • (5) A census was taken of outpatient bookings at all hospitals and health centres in Oxfordshire for the main medical and surgical specialities.
  • (6) The relations among census reduction, staffing level, and resident cost were explored.
  • (7) Census figures are not available but independent observers assume that Shias still make up at least 60% of Bahrain's native population.
  • (8) Abortion patients (376) were located by census tract (104), and rates computed per 1000 females aged 15-45 years.
  • (9) The Bureau of the Census has developed a model describing the joint effect of sampling and nonsampling errors on census statistics.
  • (10) The last census indicated that 4.2 million don't have English as a first language, less than 8% of the total.
  • (11) The Medical Record departments of the five teaching hospitals in Edmonton, plus the 37 community hospitals in the eight census districts of the northern half of the province of Alberta, Canada, were contacted, and a search was made of all patients with a discharge diagnosis of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
  • (12) Collision locations were abstracted from police reports and assigned a census tract.
  • (13) Geographical differences in stomach cancer were most closely related to occupationally derived indices of socio-economic structure from the 1971 census, and to measures of domestic crowding from the 1931 census and 1936 survey.
  • (14) The data are from the Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey and annual money income before taxes is the measure of income.
  • (15) The materials of the complex study of population's health in connection with the 1989 census of the population in many respects meet these requirements and the paper provides ways for the organization and cooperation with the chairs of social hygiene while carrying out this large-scale study.
  • (16) The number of children, born alive with clubfoot, and detailed census data for the period were available.
  • (17) The population at risk at the mid-point of the study (1975) was calculated from the National Population Censuses of 1970 and 1980, and consisted of 1125960 men and 880269 women.
  • (18) The sample of 1,302 adolescents aged 12 to 16 came from households selected by stratified, cluster and random sampling of the 1981 Canada Census.
  • (19) Disease surveillance and population surveys of risk characteristics in a northeast rural community of Japan (1965 census population, 7,030) are combined in an attempt to relate morbidity and risk factor trends for coronary heart disease and stroke during the last 2 decades.
  • (20) The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower (NaSIMM) reports on the results of its 1989-1990 census of residency programs.

Population


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
  • (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (2) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
  • (3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (5) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
  • (6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
  • (7) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
  • (8) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (9) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (10) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (11) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
  • (12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
  • (13) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (14) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (16) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (17) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (18) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (19) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (20) We therefore enumerated the percentage of Leu2a+ cells as well as the occurrence of HLA-DR activation markers within this population.