census figure

collocation in English

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census
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.səs/us
/ˈsen.səs/
a count for official purposes, especially one to count the number of people living in a country and to collect information ...
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figure
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɪɡ.ər/us
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
the symbol for a number or an amount expressed ...
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(Definition ofcensusandfigurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The 1961censusfigureof traffic on this length of trunk road was 3,213 vehicles per day.
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Allowing for boundary changes, the comparable 1981censusfigureis estimated at 2,949.
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If you take that against thecensusfigureof 1951, it shows a theoretical deficiency of 442,000 houses over twenty years.
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The 1981censusfigurewas 2·4 persons per household for housing association houses.
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He quoted the 1951censusfigureof 30,000.
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The production in 1933 was 30,000 tons, and the latestcensusfigurewhich we have got, for 1935, is 38,000 tons.
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Thecensusfigureis far too low to accommodate the full number of children attributable to the entire immigrant population.
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The 1991censusfigurewill not be available for some considerable time.
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From a 1971censusfigureof 486,625, the population growth in the country will accelerate in the period up to 1991 to an estimated 794,400, a 70 per cent, increase.
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The population declined from 368 in 1921 to 354 in 1931, to 290 in 1951, to 260 in 1961, and to 163 in 1971—the latestcensusfigure.
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That is thecensusfigure.
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This represents a 4.0% decrease in total population since the peakcensusfigure.
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This represents an increase of 5.13% from the 2000censusfigure.
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The population at the 2010 census was 12,321 a loss of 5.4 percent since the 2000censusfigureof 13,022.
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The 2010censusfigureconfirms that the population had increased since 2000.
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This figure for population represented a decrease of 27% over thecensusfigureof 1891, something presumably attributable to the famine of 1899-1900.
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This represents a 22.5% decline since the peakcensusfigure.
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This represents an increase of 9.41% from the 2000censusfigure.
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As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 7,396, up 3.1 percent from the 2000censusfigureof 7,174.
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