Roman censor
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The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances.
Scene of census-taking from the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, late 2nd century BC
The Temple of Saturn, which housed the aerarium Saturni and the aerarium sanctum
Appius Claudius Caecus, one of the most influential censors
Census
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A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating information about the members of a given population, which is then usually presented through statistics. This term is
Roman censor
…The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances. Established under the Roman Republic, power of the censor…
A census taker visits a family of indigenous Dutch Travellers living in a caravan in the Netherlands in 1925.
An early 13th-century mosaic in the Chora Church depicting the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph registering for the Census of Quirinius
An enumerator conducting a census survey using a mobile phone-based questionnaire in the rural Mutasa District in Zimbabwe in 2015
A census taker interviews a resident of Dasmariñas, Philippines, in October 2020.