Valsts valodas centra izstrādātie sociālo jautājumu, socioloģijas un statistikas termini

Konteksts: [..] It provides, at regular intervals the benchmark for the country’s population estimates programme. The ‘population census’ is defined as ‘the operation that produces at regular intervals the official counting (or benchmark) of the population in the territory of a country and in its smallest geographical sub-territories together with information on a selected number of demographic and social characteristics of the total population’. The population census is a primary source of these basic benchmark statistics, covering not only the settled population but homeless persons and nomadic groups as well. [..]