Enumerations of populations usually recording identities of all persons in every place of residence with age or date of birth, sex, occupation, national origin, language, marital status, income, relation to head of household, information on the dwelling place, education, literacy, health-related data (e.g., permanent disability), etc. The census or "numbering of the people" is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. Among the Romans, censuses were intimately connected with the enumeration of troops before and after battle and probably a military necessity. (From Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 3d ed; Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p66, p119)

Descriptor ID	D019352
MeSH Number(s)	I01.240.205 N01.224.175 N06.850.505.400.225
Concept/Terms	Censuses Censuses Census Census Methods Census Methods Census Method Method, Census Methods, Census Microcensus Microcensus

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