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The Computer Journal 1963 5(4):264-270; doi:10.1093/comjnl/5.4.264
© 1963 by British Computer Society
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The application of the electronic computer to the 1961 population census of Great Britain

R. P. Thorby and B. Benjamin

General Register Office, Somerset House, London, UK

The population census is one of the largest data-processing operations, and its handling is complicated by the fact that it is concentrated into ten-yearly occasions and is not a continuous process. Something like 800 million decimal digits of information have to be handled as input for the censes of Great Britain. The output for printing and publication is some five million digits.


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