We're working off the census.

We get that from the census data.

There is no census on bullying and dating abuse and eating disorders and cutting and rape no census.

The census is conducted every 10 years, so every time the census happens, states might gain or lose a few electoral votes.

I did a story on the census of marine life.

In the United States there is a census every ten years.

And so in this example, a census scientist took out two ships.

And there are other graphs, these graphs are created by Japanese Census Bureau.

You know, a census of Indonesia would probably take two years to accomplish.

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System is the database for all the census data.

But I will tell you some of my favorite discoveries from the census.

That means 91 percent, even after the census, still remain to be discovered.

According to the latest census, this is the poorest district in the country.

Right on the money as far as the, uh, census info is concerned.

So we start off the story with Ernest, who volunteers as a census taker.

So we have the tools and treasures coming from the Census of Marine Life.

So even after a 10 year census, there are large areas that still remain unexplored.

The result of the census led the left wing to believe that their policy was wrong.

The most exciting thing, I would say, about this census is the role of global science.

We've heard about the Tagging of Pacific Predators project, one of the 17 Census of Marine Life projects.

The logarithmic scale hides the scale of the increase, because this represents trillions fold increase since the 1890 census.

There has to be a way to take a census of the rest of the bacteria in the population.

And it contains all the data from the census plus other data sets that people were willing to contribute.

The census actually tried to look back in time, using every source of information they could get their hands on.

These graphs are released, created the US Census Bureau, it shows pyramid shapes... 1996 was the time Japan entered an aging society.

I have this record, this 1910 census, of another Grabowski that's my maiden name and there's a Theodore, because there's always a Theodore.

Know all men of Nazareth, that by command of Caesar Augustus, there will be conducted a census of the subject territories of Galilee and Judea.

Finally, in our census of the contents of the universe we come to the one that's the greatest mystery of them all, the dark energy.

Now in a second project called Tagging of Pacific Pelagics, we took on the planet as a team, those of us in the Census of Marine Life.

Now while a lot of the species we discovered in the census are things that are small and hard to see, that certainly wasn't always the case.

When I counted penguins for the first time and tried to do a census, we just counted all the individual beaks that we could around all these islands.

If you look at the US Census data set, if there are, you know, 300 million people in the US, you can usually get hundreds of millions of records.

Well now with the Census of Marine Life, we'll be able to sidle up to all the locals and explore 90 percent of our living space, with local knowledge.

And so 10 years ago, an international program began called the Census of Marine Life, which set out to try and improve our understanding of life in the global oceans.

But the really interesting thing about it is that, a few years ago, census scientists discovered that this guy can thrive in oxygen poor sediments in the deep Mediterranean Sea.

Now one of the nicest examples I like to cite on this is the story of two young women, high school students in New York City, who worked with the census.

This is part of a much larger program called the Census of Marine Life, where they're going to be tagging all over the world and the Mola's going to enter into that.

And fortunately, we've been able, as IUCN, to team up with the Census of Marine Life and many of the scientists working there to actually try to translate much of this information to policymakers.

And recent studies based on US census and FBI statistics of 2011 state that the US average to become a victim of a crime in any given city, is about one in thirty people.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

This particular shrimp, we've dubbed it the Jurassic shrimp, it's thought to have gone extinct 50 years ago at least it was, until the census discovered it was living and doing just fine off the coast of Australia.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

Census scientists worked in the rain, they worked in the cold, they worked under water and they worked above water trying to illuminate the wondrous discovery, the still vast unknown, the spectacular adaptations that we see in ocean life.

What I find so exciting is that the Census of Marine Life has looked at more than the tagging of pacific predators it's also looked in the really unexplored mid water column, where creatures like this flying sea cucumber have been found.