Pretty much what it means today. In Christ's time it was to a method of tax collection. God told David not to number Israel. He did once and got in a lot of trouble.
US Census Bureau: is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census.
A census is a record of how many people are living in a certain area at a certain time.
count numba of people in the us of states
my teacher told us that it is how you are going to measure your results