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Expenditures for Electronic Materials per capita, 1995-2002

Abstract

Expenditures for Electronic Materials show a curious pattern where the First and Fourth Quartile libraries, with the 95th percentile libraries exhibiting an increase in mean expenditures per capita with the Second and Third Quartile libraries declining. What is not clear is what effect consortia have on what we see here. They may well affect different sized libraries differently.

ine plot of expenditures for electronic materials per capita for 1995-200

Data

The chart summarizes these values:

Expenditures for Electronic Materials, by Group, 1995-2002
	First Quartile	Second Quartile	Third Quartile	Fourth Quartile	95%
1990	.	.	.	.	.
1991	.	.	.	.	.
1992	.	.	.	.	.
1993	.	.	.	.	.
1994	.	.	.	.	.
1995	$104.74	$119.70	$197.15	$200.15	$236.98
1996	120.81	131.60	211.41	228.24	196.41
1997	131.44	119.24	215.00	223.67	201.52
1998	146.41	113.14	186.50	224.30	209.36
1999	116.63	117.93	188.79	234.40	216.03
2000	154.33	117.85	177.89	241.72	243.69
2001	145.64	100.81	166.37	235.31	273.49
2002	140.32	94.23	167.07	240.26	268.24
# increase (decrease), 1995-2002	$35.58	$(25.47)	$(30.08)	$40.11	$31.26
% increase (decrease), 1995-2002	34.0	(21.3)	(15.3)	20.0	13.2

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.

October 22, 2004

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