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CHARACTERISTIC: LIFELONG LEARNING AND ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND TRAINING

INDICATOR: Visits to public library facilities per capita

Library visits per head from 1996–97 to 1999–2000 increased by 8%.


PUBLIC LIBRARY VISITS PER HEAD OF POPULATION

year
1996–1997
1999–2000

4.8
5.2
Source: ABS Public Libraries, Australia, 1999–2000 (cat. no. 8561.0), ABS Libraries and Museums, Australia, 1996–1997 (cat. no. 8649.0), ABS Population by Age and Sex, Australian States and Territories (cat. no. 3201.0), June 1997–June 2000.





Attendance by age group can provide a partial indication of informal lifelong learning. The highest attendance in 1999–2000 was registered by the 15–17 year age group at 61% followed by the 35–44 year age group at 44%.

ATTENDANCE(a) AT LIBRARIES(b), 1999
Attendance rate(c)
%
Sex
Males
30.4
Females
45.6
Persons
38.1
Age group (years)
15–17
60.5
18–24
38.1
25–34
36.6
35–44
43.7
45–54
35.1
55–64
30.6
65 and over
33.5
Birthplace
Australia
38.3
Main English-speaking countries
47.2
Other countries
31.1
(a) Attendance at least once in the 12 months prior to interview in April 1999.
(b) National, state or local government library only.
(c) The number of people who attended, expressed as a percentage of the number of people in that population group.
Source: ABS Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues, Australia, April 1999 (cat. no. 4114.0).


STATISTICAL NOTES

In the 1996–97 publication ABS Libraries and Museums, 1996–1997 (cat. no. 8649.0) public Libraries comprised National and State Libraries, Local Government authority libraries, and Regional Libraries and data were aggregated. In the 1999–2000 publication, ABS Public Libraries, 1999-2000 (cat. no. 8561.0) the data were not aggregated. (Regional libraries, which referred to those libraries operated jointly by more than one LGA, were not identified separately in the 1999–2000 survey.) Data for 1999–2000 were aggregated for the purposes of this indicator.

Library visits per head of population
This refers to the total number of visits to library locations during the survey period divided by the estimated resident population as at 30 June.



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