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FTE ALA-MLS Librarians per 25,000 population, 1991-2002

Abstract

The number of ALA-MLS Librarians increased during the period for each group. However, note that the number of librarians in each quartile is directly related to the size of each group's libraries. For many variables, the per capitas are inversely related to the size of the library.

There is a Rank Order Table for this variable in 2002 and a summary table of the ranks by state from 1992-2002.

A line plot of the mean number of ALA-MLSs by the five groups by year
Mean ALS-MLS Librarians by Group
  First Quartile Second Quartile Third Quartile Fourth Quartile 95%
1990          
1991 0.58 1.14 2.40 2.75 2.48
1992 0.68 1.20 2.41 2.75 2.56
1993 0.66 1.19 2.47 2.78 2.56
1994 0.60 1.18 2.36 2.74 2.61
1995 0.65 1.17 2.46 2.80 2.66
1996 0.72 1.30 2.49 2.86 2.70
1997 0.83 1.33 2.61 2.89 2.70
1998 0.91 1.41 2.64 2.95 2.68
1999 0.82 1.41 2.69 3.00 2.70
2000 0.91 1.46 2.71 3.03 2.73
2001 0.93 1.45 2.71 2.99 2.71
2002 0.89 1.46 2.79 3.02 2.70
# increase,
1991-2002		 0.31 0.32 0.39 0.27 0.22
% increase,
1991-2002		 53.4 28.1 16.3 9.8 8.9

Note: The value for the Town of Ulster Public Library, Kinston, New York (newkey = NY0259) for POPU_UND for 1992 was 8,478, 1993 was 1, and 1994 was 11,507. In this analysis, the value for 1993 was changed to 9,993, the mean of the 1992 and 1994 figures.

Conclusions

The number of librarians increased greater than the population they served over the period. Note that the very largest libraries has a smaller proportion of staff to population served than others in the Fourth Quartile.

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November 19, 2004
Analysis of 2001 data
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