Total Visits to Public Libraries, 1990-2002

Quick Links
Public Libraries in the US
Analysis of 2001 data
Analyzing Trends
Trends Results
Tables

Total Visits, 1990-2002, "1990" Data, span = 'A'
	First Quartile	Second Quartile	Third Quartile	Fourth Quartile	95%
1990	8,374,647	23,556,337	65,498,645	381,763,144	213,872,351
1991	9,929,418	28,396,160	86,796,939	521,226,473	308,689,237
1992	10,752,390	31,934,669	94,745,311	604,478,245	361,637,443
1993	10,710,031	33,255,529	97,813,800	635,506,710	381,101,875
1994	11,010,050	33,756,927	98,786,911	647,266,454	385,627,119
1995	11,125,978	34,441,784	102,417,735	659,782,480	391,961,638
1996	11,371,154	37,145,375	106,584,479	694,082,612	420,736,430
1997	11,651,505	37,453,982	110,426,800	739,095,544	455,811,149
1998	11,741,754	38,646,522	112,974,297	775,988,502	482,506,114
1999	12,102,077	39,616,083	117,097,750	803,614,141	504,593,450
2000	12,157,857	40,688,306	123,564,022	838,022,729	528,690,199
2001	12,631,128	43,573,469	129,427,683	879,066,292	560,765,017
2002	13,411,069	46,222,793	137,169,299	917,129,122	582,211,749
# increase, 1990-2002	5,036,422	22,666,456	71,670,654	535,365,978	368,339,398
% increase, 1990-2002	60.1	96.2	109.4	140.2	172.2

Total Visits, "1990" data

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

Visits, 1990-2002, "1990" Data, span = 'A'
1990	479,192,773
1991	646,348,990
1992	741,910,615
1993	777,286,070
1994	790,820,342
1995	807,767,977
1996	849,183,620
1997	898,627,831
1998	939,351,075
1999	972,430,051
2000	1,014,432,914
2001	1,064,698,572
2002	1,113,932,283
# increase, 1990-2002	634,739,510
% increase, 1990-2002	132.5

Total Visits, PUSUM

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

Total Visits, 1992-2002
1992	932,349,435
1993	961,791,956
1994	961,267,587
1995	981,566,093
1996	1,013,798,116
1997	1,057,940,043
1998	1,088,257,915
1999	1,119,911,659
2000	1,146,539,851
2001	1,187,817,799
2002	1,244,373,008
# increase, 1992-2002	312,023,573
% increase, 1992-2002	33.5

Total Visits to Libraries, 1990-2002

Abstract

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

Total Library Visits 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 Visits, "1990" data

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

Total Visits, PUSUM

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

December 3, 2004