This CAIR (STATS) Center publicity release (PR/CRC 1113.06.02) describes work performed during a recent GIS pilot project completed in conjunction with the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Census 2001.
The GIS system for reporting administrative data includes graphical presentations of information on NATIONALITY, AGE, EDUCATION, and HOUSEHOLD structure by GENDER, location, etc. The CAIR GISworks® application created 1113 linked html/gif type files for better decision making support in business, government, industry, (in a right and simple way – through improved information technology interface) for the Croatian public and international audiences.
The project required 16 consulting days and the total
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The graphs are univariate (i.e. one variable at the time: Age, Education, Nationality, Households) at either National (Republika Hrvatska), county (županija), or municipality (grad/općina) level. Please, see also the age pyramids and the GIS based “dominant minority diversity maps.”
Future additions/ improvements would include the option to analyze two or more variables at a time (e.g., education by gender for a geographic attribute/region).
Finally, as survey (i.e., statistical ) data are collected “fresh” by CBS over time, the new information can be combined with the 2001 Census data to allow decision makers and researchers to track trends, as they begin to emerge, until the next Census in 2011.
If you would like to ask questions about the CAIR GISworks® application, or if you have suggestions on how to make the current administrative GIS reporting tools more useful, please let us know what you would like to see changed and/or added (and how you would use the new information at) cairwave@cair-center.hr.
If you are interested to find out how GIS GISworks® might be PUT TO USE in your organization (government organizations and institutions, data collection/ acquisition companies, media buyers, advertising agencies, marketing agencies, institutes, HW/SW suppliers, data base management SW suppliers, publishers, direct marketing companies, etc.), please contact out Projects and Programs Director, Dr. Charles Stiffler at charles.stiffler@cair-center.hr.
Finally, CAIR (STATS) Research Center is actively engaged in the process of developing better business relationships with organizations (and individuals) who are faced with computationally intense data warehousing, data mining problems; and, who also feel they need the assistance of applied business analytic software and analytic (and algorithm) application development assistance using state of the art SAS Institute® software products.
If you have SAS®, CAIR will travel.
For more information please contact vesna.luzar-stiffler@cair-center.hr.