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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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1995
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| contents | Finance Data in the Public Library Statistics Program: Definitions, Internal Consistency, and Comparisons to Secondary Sources. Technical Report. Definitions Evaluation Criteria Government Libraries Library Funding Library Statistics Operating Expenses Operations Research Program Evaluation Public Libraries Research Methodology Statistical Analysis Tables (Data) This report, the third in a series, contains the results of an evaluation of the definitions and internal consistency of the finance variables used in the Federal State Cooperative System Public Library Statistics (FSCS/PLS) program, and a comparison of the statistics collected for these variables to selected statistics from independent sources. Chapter 1 contains an evaluation of the definitions used for the operating income and expenditure variables and recommendations for enhancing the definitions. Chapter 2 is a comparison of the finance statistics in the FSCS/PLS to census bureau statistics on governments, state directories, a Public Library Association dataset, and federal library grant data. Chapter 3 provides an evaluation of the internal consistency of the following: definitions, financial statistics, operating income and operating expenditure variables, staffing and finance variables, finance variables alone, capital and operating expenditure, and collection expenditure and collection counts. Principal findings include the following: the reporting instruments used by the states to collect public library statistics show a remarkably high degree of conformity to the definitions for finance variables called for by the FSCS/PLS program; the FSCS/PLS finance variables are very consistent; the FSCS should clarify the objectives for reporting capital outlay; and FSCS/PLS program data on the finances of public libraries compare favorably to the statistics available from the limited number of other sources. Appendices provide a comparison of FSCS definitions of financial variables from 1990 through 1992, a description of methodology, a comparison of total operating income for public libraries, and a comparison of statistics on income from the Federal Government in 1991. Finance data is provided is 18 tables. (Contains 68 references.) (AEF) |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 1995 |
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| spellingShingle | Finance Data in the Public Library Statistics Program: Definitions, Internal Consistency, and Comparisons to Secondary Sources. Technical Report. Definitions Evaluation Criteria Government Libraries Library Funding Library Statistics Operating Expenses Operations Research Program Evaluation Public Libraries Research Methodology Statistical Analysis Tables (Data) Finance Data in the Public Library Statistics Program: Definitions, Internal Consistency, and Comparisons to Secondary Sources. Technical Report. Definitions Evaluation Criteria Government Libraries Library Funding Library Statistics Operating Expenses Operations Research Program Evaluation Public Libraries Research Methodology Statistical Analysis Tables (Data) This report, the third in a series, contains the results of an evaluation of the definitions and internal consistency of the finance variables used in the Federal State Cooperative System Public Library Statistics (FSCS/PLS) program, and a comparison of the statistics collected for these variables to selected statistics from independent sources. Chapter 1 contains an evaluation of the definitions used for the operating income and expenditure variables and recommendations for enhancing the definitions. Chapter 2 is a comparison of the finance statistics in the FSCS/PLS to census bureau statistics on governments, state directories, a Public Library Association dataset, and federal library grant data. Chapter 3 provides an evaluation of the internal consistency of the following: definitions, financial statistics, operating income and operating expenditure variables, staffing and finance variables, finance variables alone, capital and operating expenditure, and collection expenditure and collection counts. Principal findings include the following: the reporting instruments used by the states to collect public library statistics show a remarkably high degree of conformity to the definitions for finance variables called for by the FSCS/PLS program; the FSCS/PLS finance variables are very consistent; the FSCS should clarify the objectives for reporting capital outlay; and FSCS/PLS program data on the finances of public libraries compare favorably to the statistics available from the limited number of other sources. Appendices provide a comparison of FSCS definitions of financial variables from 1990 through 1992, a description of methodology, a comparison of total operating income for public libraries, and a comparison of statistics on income from the Federal Government in 1991. Finance data is provided is 18 tables. (Contains 68 references.) (AEF) |
| title | Finance Data in the Public Library Statistics Program: Definitions, Internal Consistency, and Comparisons to Secondary Sources. Technical Report. |
| topic | Definitions Evaluation Criteria Government Libraries Library Funding Library Statistics Operating Expenses Operations Research Program Evaluation Public Libraries Research Methodology Statistical Analysis Tables (Data) |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED382215 |