Of these, 40% told census-takers they were Muslims.
这些人当中,有40%的人告诉人口普查员说他们是穆斯林。
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Even in well run Finland, the census-takers have to combine information from several dozen different data sets; efforts to link them started fully 50 years ago.
Districts such as Hulme which had hardly troubled the early censustakers — there were only 30 houses in 1774 — boasted a population of more than 50, 000 by 1851.