SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1988
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NEW TECHNOLOGY AIDS CENSUS ANALYSTS
DATA FROM THE 1981 POPULATION CENSUS AND 1986 BY-CENSUS CAN NOW BE RETRIEVED AND ANALYSED TO PRODUCE TABULATIONS AND MAPS AT THE WISH OF MICROCOMPUTER USERS.
POPULATION TAILOR-MADE
A NEW TECHNOLOGY ON THE USE OF DATA STORED ON A CD ROM (COMPACT DISK READ ONLY MEMORY) FOR MICROCOMPUTER USERS WILL ВЕ DEMONSTRATED AT A SOFTWARE/HIGH TECHNOLOGY DISPLAY ΤΟ BEGIN ON TUESDAY (APRIL 19).
THE CD ROM, WHICH IS ABOUT 12 CM IN DIAMETER, HAS A LARGE STORAGE CAPACITY OF 540 MEGABYTES AND STORES THE DATA COLLECTED FROM THE HONG KONG 1981 POPULATION CENSUS AND 1986 POPULATION BY-CENSUS AGGREGATED TO TERTIARY PLANNING UNIT LEVEL.
IT ALSO CONTAINS DIGITAL BASE MAPS OF HONG KONG AND A SOFTWARE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING TABULATION AND MAPPING FACILITIES.
AND
DATA WITH THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY,
FROM POPULATION CENSUSES ON DEMOGRAPHIC, HOUSEHOLD,
HOUSING, EDUCATION
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION CAN BE MANIPULATED AT THE HANDS OF END USERS TO FACILITATE PLANNING, DECISION MAKING, FORMULATION OF MARKETING STRATEGY, AND SO ON.
THE PRODUCT IS PRODUCED JOINTLY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT AND SPACE-TIME RESEARCH PTY LTD, AN AUSTRALIAN HIGH-TECH COMPANY, AND WILL BE SHORTLY MARKETED IN HONG KONG TO PROVIDE POPULATION CENSUS DATA.
ATTEND A
USE OF
THE
THOSE PERSONS INTERESTED CAN
OF DEMONSTRATION PRODUCT IN THE AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE/HIGH TECHNOLOGY DISPLAY.
THIS WILL BE HELD ON THE CHAI FROM 11
HARBOUR ROAD,
WAN
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
21ST FLOOR, HARBOUR AM TO 5 ГМ DAILY
CENTRE,
23
ON
TUESDAY,
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