# What do people put in the event description field for a census?

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I put _Recensement du ménage n° NNN_ (=\> Household no. NNN census)

As the census is a place event, the house of household no. NNN of such and such a municipality, [I will attach it primarily to the place if I could](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/core-classes-in-gramps-gen-lib/2241/21), then join it to the members of the different families, hence my choice to remain in a logic of household in a place

> [@Nick-Hall](#):
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> The reason for this question is to get feedback on pull request [#1782](https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/pull/1782) - “Check events of type CENSUS as well as OCCUPATION when looking for occupations”

And about the PR (I didn’t really understand its context, why this topic), I use the Forms gramplet to enter censuses and indeed, the Occupation information is often present there. Personally, rather than searching both in the profession events and in a Occupation attribute, it seems to me preferable to use an event filter for the Occupation event and a filter of the attributes of the reference to the census event (if such a filter existed - I developed it with SuperTool) for this Occupation information in the census event. But as I said, I don’t see what the context is so maybe my answer is not the appropriate one

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