Definition: Population census

Category: FAO Agricultural censuses

Total process of planning, collecting, compiling, evaluating, disseminating and analyzing demographic, economic and social data at the smallest geographical level pertaining, at a specified time, to all persons in a country or in a well-delimited part of a country. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/world_census_agri_2020_EN.pdf
Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020. Volume 1: Programme, concepts and definitions", Roma, 2015
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