ANALYSIS OF SELECTED VARIABLES INSTITUTIONS GRANTING ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREES
Category	High	Mean	Median	Low	Reporting
1. Professional staff as percent of Total Staff	72.73	34.14	33.33	3.85	284
2. Support Staff as percent of Total Staff	83.33	42.50	43.01	0.00	286
3. Student Assistant Staff as percent of Total Staff	55.56	21.61	20.00	0.00	271
4. Ratio of Professional to Support Staff (excluding Student Assistant Staff)	3.00	0.88	0.75	0.12	272
5. Ratio of Items Loaned to Items Borrowed	10.97	1.56	0.98	0.00	268
6. Serial Expenditures as percent of Total Library Materials Expenditures	60.47	30.42	29.40	1.38	270
7. Total Library Material Expenditures as percent of Total Library Expenditures	72.01	24.02	22.98	0.88	264
8. Contract Binding as percent of Total Library Expenditures	1.88	0.21	0.09	0.00	225
9. Salary and Wages Expenditures as percent of Total Library Expenditures	94.41	67.53	68.61	3.64	263
10. Other Operating Expenditures as percent of Total Library Expenditures	32.19	9.30	7.39	0.14	215
11. Unit cost of monographs (per volume)	106.67	36.10	32.63	0.00	205
12. Unit cost of serials (per title)	271.26	82.63	71.05	1.00	266