For deer take by hunters, the counts are actually done at the meat processing places and the count is actually done by a percentage. They count the total number of deer at the processers and record the carcass tag numbers. They then check the number of tags that were actually reported(called in by phone). They take the ratio of deer to the number of called in reporting and abra-cadabra you have your deer take count. An easy example of this is 100 deer at the processers. 25 deer were reported. That means that for the total amount reported they multiply it by 75%. Since reporting is not mandatory and most of the people I know process there own meat than how accurate are the numbers??
For population size they use buck take and car collisions as an indicator. I don't think that this is working too well!!!!

ukey: