census record

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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record
noun
uk
/ˈrek.ɔːd/us
/ˈrek.ɚd/
a piece of information or a description of an event that is written on paper or stored on ...
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(Definition ofcensusandrecordfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Can anything more be learned about the silences in thecensusrecordthrough further archival research or informed speculation?
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Controls were randomly selected from thecensusrecordfor the relevant areas of residence.
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Thecensusrecordfor each district has been preserved, although in some cases the original document has been lost.
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His occupation was listed in thecensusrecordas the assistant director of athletics at a college.
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Hiscensusrecordestimates his birth year as 1840.
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Goodyear's occupation was listed in thecensusrecordas a newspaper publisher.
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Herbert was the youngest of six children identified in thecensusrecord.
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Russell's fragmented family life is evidenced by the fact that he does not appear with them on anycensusrecord, save in 1860.
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Each chapter opens with a vignette, but the author shores up these anecdotes with extensive analysis of pawnshop records, regulatory debates, and census records.
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The monarch promptly issued a decree forbidding the forgery of census records.
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Surveys and censuses do not always measure the same factor : the 1851 census recorded attendances, but the 1905, 1984 and 1994 surveys and censuses recorded number of attenders.
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However, if there were to be any net income from the service, this would be used to fund the future digitisation of earlier census records.
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Hansard archive
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The 1981 census recorded an estimated 43, 500 lone parent families in households with at least one dependent child.
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Hansard archive
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Individual census records will not be available for linkage to the electoral register or other large databases.
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Hansard archive
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Every possible assistance is given by pension officers to all claimants, the official birth and census records being searched gratuitously.
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Hansard archive
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The 1981 census recorded 5,920 people who claimed chiropody to be their main profession.
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Hansard archive
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Revenue generated by the operation of the service is intended to finance the set-up costs and the future digitisation of earlier census records.
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Hansard archive
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The 1991 census recorded 6.5 million disabled people, by its definition, and that only 1.5 million of them were of working age.
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Hansard archive
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We appreciate the importance to many people of gaining access to census records as a way of starting, or continuing to pursue, their family history research.
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Hansard archive
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I should say that public records go slightly wider than was suggested at one point, and they would cover such matters as census records and other similar records.
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Hansard archive
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