What are the characteristics of the census?

The general survey is characterized by comprehensiveness, accuracy and universality. General survey, also known as comprehensive survey, refers to an exhaustive survey of all objects within a certain overall scope, so as to achieve an accurate understanding of the overall situation.

The census is absolute, it is to survey the respondents in the whole population range, and no one can be less and no one can be more. As far as the overall scope of the survey is concerned, it is relative, and there can be different groups of people, such as national census, provincial census, county census or a certain industry system census. Generally speaking, a census refers to a large-scale investigation.

There are two ways of organization: establishing special census institutions; Using the original records and accounting data of the investigation unit, the registration unit issues and fills in the questionnaire. The principles that should be paid attention to in the census are as follows: to stipulate a unified standard time, a unified census cycle, and census items and indicators.