decennial census

collocation in English

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decennial
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsen.i.əl/us
/dɪˈsen.i.əl/
happening every ...
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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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Fredrickson attributed this view to the white nationalism that emerged powerfully in the 1850s and remained strong through the nineteenth century; it resurfaced for public discussion at eachdecennialcensus.
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But we have in thedecennialcensusreturns the numbers in what is approximately the same group of industries.
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The only source of information on the population in parliamentary constituencies is thedecennialcensusof population.
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Thedecennialcensusof the population gives statistics of the numbers of apprentices analysed by age, occupation, industry and area.
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Information of the type requested is available only from thedecennialcensusof population.
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Up to a certain point this information can be obtained from thedecennialcensus.
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Thedecennialcensusforms or copies of them are retained indefinitely; except that the 1931 census forms were destroyed by fire early in the war.
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The most important regular sources are thedecennialcensusof population and the general household survey whose results are published annually.
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Thedecennialcensusdue in 1931 was postponed because of financial stringency.
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Thedecennialcensusis about to begin, the average earnings index is changing, and there is a new project to capture ward-based statistics.
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No figures are available for the year 1874, and the only comparable figures which can be given are those furnished by thedecennialcensus.
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Is not this the kind of question that it would be relevant and useful to answer in thedecennialcensusin 1981?
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Additional temporary processing facilities are used to facilitate thedecennialcensus, which employs more than a million people.
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Usingdecennialcensusdata from both countries allows for the opportunities to compare growth rates between metropolitan areas in both countries.
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The number of representatives from each state is set in proportion to each state's population in the most recentdecennialcensus.
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There is a need for further research on housing situations on reservations, as thedecennialcensusdoes not provide reliable data.
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The 2010 population was the highest recorded in anydecennialcensus.
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Definitions are updated annually, and the entire system of definitions is reevaluated once each decade based ondecennialcensusdata.
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It was long the practice that the apportionment thus made stood until after the nextdecennialcensus.
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The previousdecennialcensuswas the 2001 census.
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