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Understanding statistical geography

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This fact sheet provides a quick guide to assist people to analyse regional data and consider what geographical scale most accurately represents their region/s of interest. Common geographical scales and BCARR city rings and working zones geographies are presented to demonstrate the size, scale and how these can be used to illustrate regional data.