TABLE 7

PusLic LiBrary Users (Apurts) IN DIFFeRENT AGE GROUPS, ADAPTED FROM VARIOUS STUDIES

PERCENTAGES

Flexner
& Hopkins
1941:

Haygood, 1938  Readers Link Field &
Age  Fair Ellsworth Circu- Refer- Advisory Kaplan Berelson Montclair & Hopf Cole Peacock Berelson SRC

Group 1935 1937 lation  ence Services 1943 1945 1945 1947 1946 1948 1948 1948 1948

Young 84 44
Middle 32

Gia e P

147 4,907

Young 20-44 20-29
Middle 3044 -
Old 45and 45and

over over

781138 65 65 42 37044 £6:.. 90 36 41 .63

I1 36 31 24 38 34 32 18 19 37 41 21

I1 26 4 I1 20 35 24 26 I1 257 18 12
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES

3,760 132 20,3501 7796 25960, 158 310 274228

SPECIFIC AGE GROUPS INCLUDED IN EACH CATEGORY

10-29  15-20 18-35 20-34 15-30 20-39 20-39 15-30 21-34 21-44

30-49 3049 36-50  35-54 3I1-50 4049 40-55 3150 3554  45-59

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over over  over  over over over over - Over A, OVer  Qver