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.
POPULATION GROWTH. One of the primary purposes of the U.S. Census is to measure population distribution and change. Although the nation as a whole has continued to expand, growth has been far from uniform. Between 1990 and 2000, 684 of the nation's 3142 counties reported a population loss, many of these in the Great Plains states.