Digimap Guernsey appointed to run electronic census
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Guernsey's rolling electronic census will be created by Digimap Guernsey.
The company, which already provides IT systems for the island's States, was chosen after a tendering process for the work.
The aim of the move to a rolling database is to provide more accurate data more frequently than a traditional census would.
The system is due to be in place by 2014 with the information due to be made public from 2015 onwards.
Helen Walton, States project manager, said: "The whole project will be delivered for less than the cost of one census and the ongoing support costs will be approximately half the cost of running a census every five years."
Previously the States has put the set-up cost at £600,000, with a budget of £60,000 a year to maintain the system.
Colin Le Conte, managing director of Digimap Ltd, said: "[We] specialise in digital mapping... this will be particularly useful for analysing demographic data by parish, voting district or school catchment area for example."
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