censuses - CISMeF

Preferred Label : censuses;

MeSH definition : 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);

MeSH synonym : census;

MeSH hyponym : microcensus;

Related MeSH term : census methods; Census Method; Method, Census; Methods, Census;

MeSH annotation : for modern & hist censuses; IM; specify geog;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census;

Details

Origin ID

D019352;

UMLS CUI

C0007663;

Allowable qualifiers
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Census [HPMULTI term]
- Censuses [DeCS]
- Population censuses [UNESCO concept]
Record concept(s)
- census methods [MeSH concept]
- censuses [MeSH concept]
- microcensus [MeSH concept]
See also
- Census [DeCS]
- Census Data [DeCS]
- Urban Agriculture [DeCS]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Census [DeCS]

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