counting vs census

counting and census both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
counting	Yes	No	No	No
census	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, census is a hyponym of counting; that is, census is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than counting:

Other hyponyms of counting include blood count, nose count, nosecount, countdown, miscount, poll, recount, sperm count.

counting (noun)	census (noun)
the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order	a periodic count of the population

counting (verb)	census (verb)
	conduct a census