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Copyright 2004 haplr-index.com  Permission to reprint with this notice included. Population used is that assigned by FSCS as SERVICE population.  K equals 1,000 population in the table below.  The first 6 are input measures, remaining 9 are output measures.  FSCS data were filed in 2004, primarily calendar year 2003.

FSCS Legal Service Area Population of  1,000 to 2,499 (1K)

Number of Libraries reported in this Population Category: 1,598

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500K      250K     100K     50K     25K     10K     5K     2.5K     1K     0K

An example of how to read the data in this table: Regarding expenditure per capita, the table tells us that the HAPLR Index is weighted at 3 for this factor.  An amount of $61.30 or more would put a library above the 95th percentile, whereas an amount below $6.10 would put it below the 5th percentile.

2003 Data filed 2004
First 6 are input, next 9 are output measures.
1 K Population HAPLR WEIGHT 95th %ile 75th %ile 50th %ile 25th %ile 5th %ile
Expend per capita 3 $61.30 $30.95 $21.02 $13.53 $6.10
Percent of Budget to Materials 2 37.30% 24.50% 17.90% 12.70% 5.80%
Materials Expenditure Per capita 2 $11.62 $5.87 $3.80 $2.28 $0.66
FTE Staff per 1,000 Population 2        1.65        0.89        0.60        0.40        0.21
Periodicals per 1000 residents 1        51.3        30.1        19.1          9.7          0.5
Volumes per Capita 1        15.9        10.1          7.4          5.3          3.2
Oper Expend per Circulation (low to high) 3 $1.23 $2.19 $3.15 $4.75 $9.81
Visits per capita 3        13.4          6.6          4.1          2.5          0.9
Collection Turnover 3          2.4          1.3          0.9          0.6          0.2
Circulation per FTE Staff hr 2        13.2          7.5          5.4          3.5          1.5
Circulation per capita 2        20.5        10.8          6.6          3.9          1.4
Reference per capita 2          2.9          0.9          0.5          0.2          0.0
Circulation per hour 2        20.8        11.9          8.0          4.9          2.1
Visits per hour 1        12.5          7.2          4.9          3.2          1.4
Circulation per visit 1          4.2          2.1          1.6          1.1          0.7

 

 

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