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A census taken twenty years later in 1568, covering about 90% of the towns and villages of
Central Mexico, is probably the most comprehensive of the 16th-century recorded enumerations. During the later Colonial period in the 17th century a number of other demographic counts and compilations were
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A census of the whole confederation shall be taken within five years, and shall be renewed afterward every ten years, which shall serve to designate the number of deputies to which each state is entitled. In the meantime, elections are to be regulated on the basis established in the preceding
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The history of Mexico. Collected from
Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts, and ancient paintings of the Indians. Illustrated by charts, and other copper plates. To which are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico, 2
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The count was conducted by adding stones to a pile representing each person counted, giving a total of 3,200,000 residents. The retelling of this tradition was documented in the late 18th century by
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It was not until the late 18th century that an accounting of the population was conducted, known as the
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basis, taking place on the year ending in zero of each decade. The only variation to this schedule thus far occurred with the fourth census, where difficulties arising from the
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The following table lists the official names and dates of all the conducted national population censuses from 1895.
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between 1790 and 1791, some forty volumes of data from this census are conserved in the
Mexican national archives.
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began the systematic collection of population data for the new territories. One such was the document known as the
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Spanish colonial expansion, the administrators and missionaries for the
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was achieved in 1824, the new
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article, and the census which served to regulate the election of deputies in the
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from 1548, which contained a survey and description of 907 villages and settlements in central Mexico.
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The practice of census-taking in Mexico may have precedents dating back to the late
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