Research Article
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 | | 10 | 168 | 115 |
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