A one day census of inpatients in a mental hospital could
A census is defined by UN as the total process of collecting,complying and publishing demographic,economic and social data peaining at a specified time or times to all persons in a country or delimited territory
Give good information about the patients in that hospital at that time
Give reliable estimates of seasonal factors in admission
Enable us to draw conclusions about the mental hospitals of India
Enable us to estimate the distribution of different diagnosis in mental illness in the local area
Epidemiology