I am not sure if I am following correctly. Why not take the average or sum
the Japanese Wards.  You would use SQL Select and for columns, the first
should be the unique id of the Japanese wards.   If you need more, add them
in.  The last column should be the census data, this is the one you will use
the for the max value, sum, average; whichever you choose.  Where clause
will be the objects column for each table.  It is very important which
operator you use in the where clause.  Contains will choose objects from the
census data where the centroid falls within the JW polygon.  Intersects will
figure every census object that touches the JW polygon.  Contains entire
will only choose objects that are entirely within the JW polygon.  Each one
of these will yield a different result.  My suggestion is try one way and
spot check the results and see if that is what your looking for.  If its
not, change the operator and try again.

I don't know if this is what you were asking for.  Hope it helps.

Mike Hankins
Actuarial Services Analyst
COUNTRY Insurance and Financial Services
309-821-2302


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Subject: MI-L Population Weighted Centroid


I have a 1km grid containing Industrial Census Data.  I also have irregular
polygons (Japanese Wards) that will normally contain many of the 1km grid
squares.  Does anybody know of a technique whereby I can derive a centroid
of the ward based on the values of one of the attributes in the grid?  The
obvious would be to choose the centroid of the largest but I would rather
not.

Thanks

Andy


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