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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of the Census mean?
• BUREAU OF THE CENSUS (noun)
The noun BUREAU OF THE CENSUS has 1 sense:
1. the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
Familiarity information: BUREAU OF THE CENSUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Bureau of the Census; Census Bureau
Hypernyms ("Bureau of the Census" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Bureau of the Census" is a part of...):
Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)
Context examples
Since its inception in 1957, the NHIS has been a continuing nationwide sample survey in which data are collected through personal interviews with household members by U.S. Bureau of the Census interviewers.
(National Health Interview Survey, NCI Thesaurus)
Relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
(Census Tract, NCI Thesaurus)
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