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I appreciate the help I've been given so far. The issue I face is that the data I'm working with has 53000 rows, so in calculating distance, finding all recids that fall within 2km and summing the population, etc. - a) takes too long and b) have no sense of progress. Below is a loop that reads each recid one at a time, calculates the distance and identifies the recids that fall within 2