census return
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcensusandreturn
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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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return
adjective[before noun]
uk/rɪˈtɜːn/us/rɪˈtɝːn/
The return part of a journey is the part in which you go back to the place where ...
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(Definition ofcensusandreturnfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcensus return
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These sources were checked in each case against the most recent previouscensusreturnin order to ascertain the social group of each subscriber.
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This information is included in the annual schoolcensusreturn.
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Hansard archive
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A total of 105,404 letters were sent to livestock holdings on which we had information that livestock were present from their latestcensusreturn.
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Hansard archive
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The truth is that there is no view in this country that an individual'scensusreturnwill be opened and be available to public view.
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Hansard archive
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However, on certain returns, such as the agricultural and horticulturalcensusreturn, information can be submitted in acres rather than hectares.
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Hansard archive
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How much will the information that came to light in the previouscensusreturninfluence the distribution of funds to deprived areas?
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Hansard archive
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Provision is, however, made for people who do not wish information about themselves to come into the hands of the person making thecensusreturn.
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Hansard archive
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We have destiny in our hands; it is not left to the whim or the extrapolation of some expert from acensusreturn.
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Hansard archive
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This table excludes minor holdings which do not make an annualcensusreturn.
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Hansard archive
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If you take thecensusreturnof 1931 it shows at that tune that there were 10,595,000 structurally separate dwellings.
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Hansard archive
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The census provides a convenient means of obtaining information which can be related to the other information on thecensusreturn, for example, about current employment.
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Hansard archive
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Thecensusreturnwould be supplemented by administrative and survey data.
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Wikipedia
By the 18th century industries such as shipbuilding were present which contributed to population growth resulting in acensusreturnof almost 500 by 1872.
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Wikipedia
This peaked at 276 in thecensusreturnof 1861.
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Wikipedia
The census returns indicate that many of those single solitaries - though some of the married ones also - were inmigrants.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Moreover, compared with the census returns, agriculture was likely to have been under-recorded in the directories.
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A further source of error is related to the time at which census returns are completed.
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Australian historians, it should be noted, do not have access to manuscript census returns.
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No use, for instance, is made of the 1901 census returns which would have exposed the problems of poverty and slums.
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