A More Accurate Measure of Local Public Goods: Overlapping Government Combinations as Units of Analysis

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for property tax rates of counties, municipalities and school districts.

	Country	City	School district
Mean	0.3250	0.5493	1.4122
Standard error	0.0256	0.0155	0.0133
Median	0.3093	0.5865	1.4188
Standard deviation	0.0809	0.2014	0.1426
Kurtosis	1.3578	−0.2199	−0.6214
Skewness	1.1593	−0.1481	−0.1650
Range	0.2620	1.0552	0.5500
Minimum	0.2400	0.0503	1.1200
Maximum	0.5020	1.1054	1.6700
𝑁	10	168	115