census vs chronicle

census

verb
  • To conduct a census on. 

  • To collect a census. 

noun
  • An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. 

  • Count, tally. 

chronicle

verb
  • To record in or as in a chronicle. 

noun
  • A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time. 

How often have the words census and chronicle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )