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.
In the United States, the census is officially a big deal (see How the Census Works to learn exactly how big a deal it is). Originally, the census was meant to be a way to count everyone so that the members of the House of Representatives could be allocated properly to the states.