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Library Visits per capita, 1991-2002

Abstract

Visits rose over the period. The smallest libraries had more visits per capita but the greatest growth was in the largest libraries.

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 library visits the five groups by year
Library Visits per capita by Group
  First Quartile Second Quartile Third Quartile Fourth Quartile 95%
1990 . . . . .
1991 5.74 4.80 5.14 4.24 3.33
1992 6.06 4.97 5.25 4.57 3.75
1993 6.03 5.00 5.25 4.61 3.84
1994 5.81 4.78 5.05 4.48 3.77
1995 5.94 4.85 5.18 4.52 3.77
1996 5.91 4.99 5.15 4.51 3.78
1997 5.94 5.01 5.28 4.63 3.89
1998 5.88 5.04 5.30 4.68 3.98
1999 5.95 5.02 5.39 4.70 4.00
2000 5.84 5.05 5.44 4.70 4.05
2001 5.93 5.19 5.42 4.69 4.09
2002 5.96 5.37 5.65 4.82 4.24
# increase,
1991-2002		 0.22 0.57 0.51 0.58 0.91
% increase,
1991-2002		 3.8 11.9 9.9 13.7 27.3

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
Analysis of 2001 data
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