After a 72-year wait required by law, the National Archives has released individual records from the 1940 Census, opening a gold mine for people researching their family histories. But the 1940 Census ...

China has started its fourth one-percent national sample census, covering a population of about 14 million. The census takers are to be equipped with a personal digital assistant or PDA for the first ...

Ahead of the Economic Census 2011, a sample survey would be conducted in Maharastra, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram from next week, officials said in Aizawl on Sunday. Ahead of the Economic ...

Hundreds of millions of people in India have no access to a toilet at home Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the latest ...

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Earlier this year the government announced the Census would be replaced with a combination of administrative data and smaller annual surveys.