Example sentences of "[conj] the [num] census " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated . |
| 2 | A net outflow from the UK until the 1931 Census was followed by a period of net inward migration which culminated in the early 1960s in the peak arrivals of migrants from the ‘ new Commonwealth ’ , chiefly the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , reflecting a UK shortage of labour in the long ‘ post-war boom ’ . |
| 3 | The peak population in Lewis and Harris and the Western Isles was not reached until the 1911 census , and the decline began with the big losses incurred in the 1914–18 war . |
| 4 | The variables and definitions for 1981 will differ from those in 1991 , as described above ; it would obviously be desirable if the 1981 Census sample were organised by the same geographical zones , and the same codings of variables as that for 1991 . |
| 5 | The Royal Commission on Labour reported in 1894 that much of the cheaper work for Bristol clothiers was done by a female labour force at home , and the 1901 Census returns recorded one-third of women employed in the clothing trade as homeworkers . |
| 6 | It is not easy to measure at local scale because the 1981 Census did not contain an ethnicity question , but an impression can be gained from birth-place data in the Census . |
| 7 | While the 1981 Census put the proportion of all families that are one parent families at just over 14 per cent , the average in Inner London was 26.6 per cent . |
| 8 | This will be especially likely when the 2001 Census data becomes available . |
| 9 | These collieries were largely responsible for Dronfield 's early industrial development , for when the 1861 census was taken 383 men , or 48 per cent of the workforce , were employed in local mines . |
| 10 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 11 | Brunswick Place itself was definitely rather an up-market location , as the 1881 census makes clear . |