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- Introduction To StatMaster Shareware Version 2.1
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- StatMaster Desktop Demographics is a stand-alone database containing thou-
- sands of demographic, economic, and geographic statistics published by the
- Bureau of the Census. There are 50 individual state versions of this program,
- and each version contains census information for the entire United States, its
- 4 regions, 9 divisions, 50 states, Washington DC, and every county, city, and
- place with a population of over 2,500 in a single state.
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- StatMaster answers the needs of advertising agencies, banks, building con-
- tractors, educators, federal and state governments, franchising organizations,
- fund raising groups, hospitals and HMO's, insurance companies, libraries, man-
- ufacturing concerns, marketing firms, planning agencies, political organiza-
- tions, restaurant chains, recruiting agencies, retail conglomerates, schools
- (sixth grade through post-grad), service industries, site-selection organiza-
- tions, venture capitalists, wholesale businesses, and virtually any organiza-
- tion or business that deems it prudent to test intuition against cold, hard
- numbers.
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- Each shareware version contains an average of 18,000 statistics. Stat-
- Master provides a full-featured database manager that allows you to rank, dis-
- play, and perform queries on every statistic in the database. StatMaster will
- run on any IBM PC-compatible computer with a hard drive and 640K of RAM.
- You'll find that StatMaster is very intuitive and easy to use... sixth-graders
- can use StatMaster after just one introductory session. StatMaster was de-
- signed for use in libraries where users must be able to walk up and immediate-
- ly begin using the software.
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- StatMaster provides the information you need to improve strategic plan-
- ning, advertising, direct marketing, and site selection activities. This
- product can save you hours or even days of research on presentations, arti-
- cles, and homework. This shareware version contains data from the Census
- Bureau's 1988 County and City Data Book; registration brings you all this
- data plus the latest 1990 decennial census data.
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- Furthermore, the retail version will permit you to export all text and
- data into word processors, databases, spreadsheets, graphics presentation
- packages, and mapping programs. This capability permits you to quickly
- create bar charts, pie charts, 3-D charts, color-coded maps and allow you to
- use these tools in slides, transparencies, and electronic slide shows. The
- business, educational, and personal uses for this highly tangible form of
- information will be limited only by your imagination.
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- You may return to the menu now (by pressing the Esc key) and read the
- other documents if you wish. If you prefer to jump right in and start using
- StatMaster, just press Esc to return to the menu, then exit to DOS. A message
- on the screen will tell you how to start StatMaster. Because it's a read-
- only database, it's virtually impossible to damage StatMaster by using it.
- Feel free to play with the program. Experiment with the keys. You'll be sur-
- prised how fast you're able to master the features of this unique new genre of
- software.
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