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Book and Serial Volumes per capita, 1991-2002

Abstract

The smaller the library the more books and serial volumes per capita. All increased by this measure but the smallest grew by the greatest percentage. It would appear that the fewer the books a library has, the more these volumes they have per person in the service area. Of course, the largest libraries have more volumes but many of them will not circulate often. However, note that the circulation per capita fell at the two smallest groups--the ones that added the most volumes over the period.

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 interlibrary loans received per 1,000 population at the five groups by year
Book and Serial Volumes per capita, by Group
  First Quartile Second Quartile Third Quartile Fourth Quartile 95%
1990 . . . . .
1991 10.56 5.27 3.77 2.67 2.22
1992 11.08 5.32 3.81 2.73 2.29
1993 11.32 5.37 3.87 2.77 2.31
1994 11.13 5.21 3.80 2.71 2.29
1995 11.55 5.25 3.81 2.76 2.35
1996 11.69 5.29 3.84 2.79 2.38
1997 11.80 5.37 3.87 2.81 2.39
1998 11.81 5.44 3.90 2.85 2.43
1999 11.74 5.48 3.93 2.89 2.44
2000 11.91 5.48 3.93 2.88 2.46
2001 12.06 5.58 3.93 2.85 2.41
2002 12.18 5.59 3.98 2.87 2.44
# increase,
1991-2002		 1.62 0.32 0.21 0.20 0.22
% increase,
1991-2002		 15.3 6.1 5.6 7.5 9.9

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.

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October 19, 2004
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