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Introduction: Reaching to the goal of health promotion and directing people toward community based participatory research, needs a scientific approach. Census is the first step in knowing people and environmental potentials in order to drawing people participation and empowering them, need assessment, performing applied research and planning interventions to promote their health. This study is done as census in 2006. Materials and methods: Sampling method was census and concluded all people in Arak population research center. Census was done in the form of 11 clusters in the field and by 11 questioning teams which were active under the supervision of 5 observer teams. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: In the performed census, 34918 persons were assessed in which 51.2% were male. 50.6% of them were unmarried, 45.6% married, 0.15% remarried, 0.08% divorced and 0.09% widowed. Also 11.72% were illiterate, 18.73% had elementary education, 30.32% were under diploma, 15.42% had diploma and 6.81% college education. Conclusion: The region is in a moderate to low socioeconomic level and has a lower immigration rate than other suburb areas. Results are available and necessary for future researches.

Keywords: Census, population research base, community based participatory research, sociology

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