A procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about all the members of a given population.
- General: Official counting of a region's or nation's people and compilation of economic, social and other data, usually for formulation of development policies and plans and demarcating constituencies for elections.
- Statistics: Survey of an entire population, as opposed to a sample survey.
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