Example sentences of "in the [num] census " in BNC.

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1 Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) .
2 There were many more such households in the 1991 Census than in previous years ; this is generally thought to be because many people evaded the enumerators lest they be made to pay the Community Charge .
3 Ironically , there was no need for imputation in the 1991 Census in Northern Ireland , where the rates system had not been replaced by the Community Charge .
4 The thirty or so largest groups accounted for about seventy per cent of the total population in the 1948 census .
5 His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners .
6 However , in the 1981 Census an attempt was made to physically define urban areas , at the enumeration district level , by using a threshold of 1,000 people and 20 hectares of urban land ( Denham , 1984 ) .
7 In the 1981 census year the annual incidence of probable Alzheimer 's disease was 1.6 ( 1.0 to 2.6 ) .
8 When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias .
9 For example , a classification may be based on skin-colour , as in the OPCS Labour Survey 's White and Non-white ; or on country of origin or descent , as in the Rampton and Swann Reports ' West Indian , Asian and Other ; or on a mixture of both , as in Eggleston et al. 's ( 1986 ) Afro-Caribbean , Asian and White ; or on country of birth of the head of household ( as in the 1981 Census ) , with such categories of country as the New Commonwealth and Pakistan .
10 However , the latter figure is based on answers to a question in the 1981 census about the country of birth of one 's head of household , and can not be considered very accurate .
11 Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support .
12 On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ .
13 When Denaby Main colliery was sunk on the eastern edge of the old coalfield in 1868 hardly any of the workforce had local origins ; of the 166 colliers recorded in the 1871 census for the new pit village only ten were born in Yorkshire .
14 In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population .
15 They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression .
16 For male workers , however , employment was rapidly increasing in the areas of electrical appliances , transportation and furniture which first appear in the 1965 census as well as metal products and some of the areas traditionally open to women — chemicals , paper and rubber ( Chinchilla 1977 ) .
17 Level of literary and education have traditionally been high in the Baltic republics ( Estonia , for instance , was 96.2 per cent literate in the 1897 census compared with an average for European Russia as a whole of 28.4 per cent ) , and there are higher than average levels of media consumption , urbanisation and other indicators of ‘ modernity ’ .
18 Frances ( Fanney in the '41 Census ) married a mason , John Braithwaite of Ulverston , whilst her brother John , 9 , became apprenticed to the mason trade , possibly with the Braithwaites .
19 The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population .
20 The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR .
21 Latvians , 77 per cent of the population of their republic before the war , had fallen to 52 per cent in the 1989 census , and to about a third of the population of their capital city , Riga .
22 Data obtained in the 1969 Census ( to which I have had access but which , to my knowledge , remain unpublished ) suggest that only 15% of the population spoke a mother tongue which was not closely related to one of the seven African broadcast languages .
23 Mrs K. Battye 's local history class have mapped the information recorded in the 1881 census returns and have related much of it to existing buildings .
24 In the 1851 census he is described as ‘ Station Master ’ .
25 Dr Pamela Horn has estimated that about a fifth of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers who were recorded in the 1851 census were under the age of fifteen .
26 A count of the 237 heads of households in the 1851 census returns reveals that 143 ( that is 60 per cent ) were framework knitters .
27 John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom .
28 An analysis of the birthplaces of all the heads of households recorded in the 1851 census showed that 57 per cent were born outside Ashbourne .
29 The response rate in the 1990 census was 95.3% for establishments and 95.6% for residents ( enumeration of establishments was complete in 1979 ) .
30 Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias .
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