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Census vs Statistic - What's the difference?

census | statistic |

As nouns the difference between census and statistic

is that census is an official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals while statistic is a single item in a statistical study.

As a verb census

is to collect a census.

As an adjective statistic is

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census

English

(wikipedia census)

Noun

(censuses)
  • An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To collect a census.

    • statistic

    English

    (wikipedia statistic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A single item in a statistical study.
  • A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
  • A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
    • By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic .

    Synonyms

    * number

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * statistically * statistician