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)
    

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Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.

United States life tables, 1910 / prepared under the supervision of Prof. James W. Glover, of the University of Michigan.

Les Toscans et leurs familles : une étude du "catasto" florentin de 1427 / David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ... ; [publié par le Centre de recherches historiques de Paris et par le] Centre national de la recherche scientifique, [Recherche coopérative sur programme no 181].

La popolazione del Mezzogiorno nella statistica di re Murat / a cura di Stefania Martuscelli ; prefazione di Alfonso Scirocco.

Census of England and Wales, 1861 : [Population].

Census 1961, England and Wales : Commonwealth immigrants in the conurbations.

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United States life tables, 1910 / prepared under the supervision of Prof. James W. Glover, of the University of Michigan.

Les Toscans et leurs familles : une étude du "catasto" florentin de 1427 / David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ... ; [publié par le Centre de recherches historiques de Paris et par le] Centre national de la recherche scientifique, [Recherche coopérative sur programme no 181].

La popolazione del Mezzogiorno nella statistica di re Murat / a cura di Stefania Martuscelli ; prefazione di Alfonso Scirocco.

Census of England and Wales, 1861 : [Population].

Census 1961, England and Wales : Commonwealth immigrants in the conurbations.