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Analysing data: CIPFA statistics and the future of England's libraries

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Analysing data: CIPFA statistics and the future of England's libraries

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Research report by Joan O’Bryan, an MPhil candidate in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge who undertook a 4 week placement with the Taskforce team during April and May 2018. She interrogated CIPFA statistics sheets from 2006-07 to 2016-17 to analyse trends regarding public libraries in England, as well as assess the reliability and limitations of the CIPFA dataset.

Published 16 August 2018