During the last 20 years, new census philosophy is implemented via the integration of data sources, the integration of different modes, methods and tools to collect and compile census information, and the deployment of census activities over time. The planning and implementation of the deriving new censuses necessitate a wholistic approach, which aims to answer some of the challenges presented: It encompasses and organizes the diversified census modules along central elements, and it entails integration-infrastructures that exist independently or can be built as an autonomous playground for the census game. The perception of a census as a whole refers to three basic elements: time, area and data sources and scope, whose bonding glue is the integration infrastructures. The suggested infrastructure systems are: information, spatial information and management and monitoring systems. Those elements and systems are expected to remain relevant when development in statistical methodology and census technology will further change and shape future censuses.