Friday, 23 September 2005

Neighbourhood statistics conference

Neighbourhood and regional statistics: Statistics User Forum Conference, London, 1 November 2005

Contact: SUFconference@rss.org.uk

Further information here.

23 Sep 2005 09:27:11

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