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On July 1, 2000, there were an estimated 275 mil people living in the United States; on Census Day, Apr. 1, 1990, 10 years earlier, the nation's population was 249 mil. Of the 2000 population, an estimated 226 mil (82%) were White; 35 mil (13%) were Black or African American; Asians and Pacific Islanders numbered 11 mil (4%); and the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut population was about 2 mil (1%). An estimated 32 mil (12%) were of Hispanic origin (people of Hispanic origin may be of any race). About 197 mil (or 71%) classified themselves as non-Hispanic White.
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In Russia, the first (and the only) Russian Empire Census was carried out in 1897. All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR (which included RSFSR and the other republics) in 1920 (urban only), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989. The first post-Soviet Russian Census was carried out in 2002. The next census is tentatively planned for 2010. Currently, the census is the responsibility of the Federal State Statistics Service.
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A census is an enumeration of all the people of a nation or a registration region, a systematic and complete count of all who are living in specified places, usually on a specific date. The practice of conducting a periodic census began in Egypt in the second millennium before the common era, where it was used for tax gathering and to determine fitness for military services. The Romans adopted the practice in the first century B.C.E. Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem because Mary and Joseph had gone there to be enumerated in a Roman census. The Domesday Book was a census of English landowners and their resources soon after the Norman conquest. Many European nations held censuses of varying quality and completeness from time to time until the modern era, when the practice became a formal part of the business of a modern state.
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The Census Bureau held this news conference to release the consolidated report on 2003 money income, poverty and health insurance coverage for the nation-- results based on the Current Population Survey. Simultaneously, the Census Bureau will release income and poverty data from the 2003 American Community Survey for states and other areas with populations of 250,000 or more.
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A limited population census based on registers was taken in 1976. From 1981 and each year onwards information that corresponds to a population and housing census is retrieved from registers. Denmark was the first country in the world to conduct these censuses from administrative registers. The most important registers are the population register (Det Centrale Personregister), a Building and Dwelling Register and an Enterprise Register. The central statistical office, Statistics Denmark is responsible for compiling these data. This information is available online in the Statbank Denmark.
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The Census of the United States is conducted decennially (every ten years) in years ending in zero. The first census was in 1790. The taking of a census is mandated in the U.S. Constitution.
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