Total Circulations at Public Libraries, 1990-2002

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Total Circulations, 1990-2002, "1990" Data, span = 'A'
	First Quartile	Second Quartile	Third Quartile	Fourth Quartile	95%
1990	19,418,921	58,364,551	163,629,982	1,083,718,741	677,449,642
1991	20,440,845	60,755,425	172,015,142	1,144,391,377	715,546,688
1992	21,498,716	64,287,576	182,502,115	1,220,277,425	768,783,438
1993	21,937,149	65,335,603	185,195,987	1,245,028,213	785,319,023
1994	21,545,283	65,069,013	185,087,382	1,229,763,164	771,612,583
1995	21,583,529	65,775,614	187,153,586	1,255,859,876	788,252,246
1996	21,398,576	66,545,212	190,277,027	1,282,428,861	807,157,289
1997	21,429,518	67,776,738	195,195,176	1,312,230,834	825,323,180
1998	21,198,954	68,184,812	194,916,800	1,326,691,150	838,655,723
1999	20,934,076	67,678,321	193,680,084	1,322,857,708	839,450,021
2000	20,902,860	67,731,949	194,237,997	1,339,965,808	854,161,780
2001	21,317,327	69,820,291	200,551,784	1,405,083,679	901,314,036
2002	22,050,944	72,849,009	209,405,955	1,491,579,109	956,596,221
# increase, 1990-2002	2,632,023	14,484,458	45,775,973	407,860,368	279,146,579
% increase, 1990-2002	13.6	24.8	28.0	37.6	41.2

Total Circulation, "1990" data

This table gives the yearly totals of circulations for the same group of 8,259 libraries.

Circulations, 1990-2002, "1990" Data, span = 'A'
1990	1,325,132,195
1991	1,397,602,789
1992	1,488,565,832
1993	1,517,496,952
1994	1,501,464,842
1995	1,530,372,605
1996	1,560,649,676
1997	1,596,632,266
1998	1,610,991,716
1999	1,605,150,189
2000	1,622,838,614
2001	1,696,773,081
2002	1,795,885,017
# increase, 1990-2002	470,752,822
% increase, 1990-2002	35.5

Total Circulation, PUSUM

This dataset includes imputations for non response beginning in 1992 and represents, therefore, a national estimate of total circulations, that is, all public libraries in the US.

Total Circulations, 1992-2002
1992	1,564,380,576
1993	1,595,167,482
1994	1,578,458,404
1995	1,609,871,741
1996	1,642,625,448
1997	1,690,308,821
1998	1,701,327,474
1999	1,693,540,369
2000	1,714,108,577
2001	1,789,971,452
2002	1,897,893,494
# increase, 1992-2002	333,512,918
% increase, 1992-2002	21.3

Total Circulations at Libraries, 1990-2002

Abstract

Total circulations are analyzed several different ways and all indicate an increase in circulations over the period.

Total Circulation by Quartiles:

Note that the 95% libraries are a subset of and included in the count of Fourth Quartile libraries. This group of libraries is the same group analyzed in most of the trends pages and consists of the 8,259 libraries reporting to NCES each year from FY1990-FY2002.

Total Circulation, "1990" data

This table gives the yearly totals of circulations for the same group of 8,259 libraries.

Total Circulation, PUSUM

This dataset includes imputations for non response beginning in 1992 and represents, therefore, a national estimate of total circulations, that is, all public libraries in the US.

May 16, 2005