It called for the authority to look into using other data sources to measure population figures - such as the National Insurance number register, GP lists and council tax records.
And Rick Oltman of Californians for Population Stabilization says the measure sets a dangerous precedent.
The country's best-educated population, by this measure, is Brent North, in the Wembley area of north-west London, where more than 98% of adults have a qualification.
But whatever their limitations, the tools allow us to examine how words are being used by both the press and the general population, and to measure changes in their popularity and shifts in their meaning.
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Bloomberg hailed the population rise as a measure of the city's quality of life, crediting factors he often cites as key accomplishments on his 11-year watch: crime rates at historic lows, rising life expectancy and a public school system that has seen an aggressive, if not uncontroversial, overhaul.
Murray also suggests adjusting for gross domestic product, a measure of both population and resources.
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Adjust that number for population growth and a correct measure of inflation and you see that the average person is getting poorer.
"Though the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are doing everything possible to assist civilians affected by the violence, it is up to the parties to the conflict to take every feasible measure to spare the civilian population the effects of the fighting, " said Marianne Gasser, the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria.
This benefit is small, which is exactly what I would predict for a preventive measure in a low-risk population.
It is part of a monitoring project across 10 sites in Suffolk to measure the size of the dormouse population.
This segment of the American electorate is by any measure sprawling, with near-explosive population growth in places like California and Texas and growing numbers in swing states like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico.
Its variability is a measure of the number of females in a population at a given time.
The zoo stressed that all animals are kept in quarantine as a precautionary measure before being allowed to enter the general zoo population.
The remarkable fact is that, even though the earth's population has more than trebled in a century, the best measure of the scarcity of resources price has fallen virtually throughout that time for just about everything extracted from or grown in the earth, yet has risen, in the form of wages, for the one thing that has become far more abundant: people.
Moreover, the labor force participation rate, which is a measure of the percentage of people working in the entire population, is falling precipitously.
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Then there is the third measure, championed by Milanovic himself, which is to treat the world just as one population.
He said that the combination of an ageing population and fire service cuts meant that "the installation of sprinklers is perhaps the single most effective measure in protecting occupants of dwellings from fire".
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