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Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS.

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Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS. / Gregory, Ian; Ell, Paul S.
In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, Vol. 168, No. 2, 03.2005, p. 419-437.

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Gregory, I & Ell, PS 2005, 'Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS.', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, vol. 168, no. 2, pp. 419-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00356.x

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Gregory, I., & Ell, P. S. (2005). Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, 168(2), 419-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00356.x

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Gregory I, Ell PS. Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society. 2005 Mar;168(2):419-437. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00356.x

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Gregory, Ian ; Ell, Paul S. / Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society. 2005 ; Vol. 168, No. 2. pp. 419-437.

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