TABLE 9

PuBLic LiBrary Users (Apurts) IN DirrereNT Epucationar Groups,
ADAPTED FROM VARIOUS STUDIES

PERCENTAGES

Ellsworth, 1937 Haygood Flexner &
1938 Hopkins, 1941:
Fair ST. Readers  Berelson Montclair Cole Wylie  Field & Berel- SRC*
Education 1935  CHICAGO LOUIS REF- CIR- Advisory 1945 1945 1947 1948 1948 Peacock son 1948
ER- . CULA- Service, 1948 1948
ENCE  TION NYPL

None and 5
grade school 50 50 13 4 4 43 18 2 3 B 9 135 i e
20

 

High school : 35 71 23, < Lie0 51 58 51 47 36 49 47 64 42
College 5 15 16 L SR 6 24 46 50 61 - 30 44 23 33

TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES

146 Not Not 3,055 16,540 1,100 261 6,350 7,768 158 280 308 269 228
given  given

“Educational groups: No education or some grade school; completed grade school or some high school; completed high school; college.