About ASTMâ¦. Two New Journals. â¢ Advances in Civil Engineering Materials covers topics relating to the. properties and performance of civil engineering materials, such as concrete, asphalt, steel, polymers and polymeric composites, and wood.
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in  connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses.
The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states:  Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective Numbers ...he United States Census Bureau (officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title 13 U.S.C. Â§ 11) is responsible for the United States Census. The first census after the American Revolution was taken in 1790, under Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; there have been 22 federal censuses since that time.