Public Libraries Data, 1989: [United States] (ICPSR 9596)
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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09596.v1
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The purpose of this survey was to identify the cooperative library organizations within the United States and to gather information about these organizations. In this survey the Federal/State Cooperative System for Public Library Data collected 32 basic data items and 7 identifying items for each library. The data items include number of service outlets, full-time equivalent staff, income, operational expenditures, capital outlay, library collection, annual public service hours, library services, and inter-library loans. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are included in this file, which encompasses 8,968 libraries.
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(1) One state, Tennessee, supplied only the state summary data and was unable to provide the individual library data. (2) The title of this collection has been changed from PUBLIC LIBRARIES SURVEY, 1989: [UNITED STATES] to PUBLIC LIBRARIES DATA, 1989: [UNITED STATES] to align it with others in the series. (3) The codebook and data collection instrument are provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
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State library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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self-enumerated direct entry machine-readable questionnaires
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1991-10-23
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- U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. PUBLIC LIBRARIES DATA, 1989: [UNITED STATES]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics [producer], 1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09596.v1
2006-01-18 File SP9596.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2006-01-18 File CB9596.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2006-01-18 File SA9596.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2003-07-25 Users should note that this study is a complete version of PUBLIC LIBRARIES DATA, 1989: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2212] with the addition of SAS and SPSS data definition statements. For this reason, ICPSR 2212 has been permanently removed from the archive. Also, the variable count for this collection has been corrected to 45, the record layout for the July 1990 Public Libraries Data Collection has been removed from the documentation, and the codebook has been converted to PDF.
1991-10-23 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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