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Accounting for Public Recreation Expenditures

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  • William S. Hendon

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. Understanding why local parks and recreation budgets are set at particular levels is an interesting but difficult area in which to conduct research. In order to help clarify some of the important ideas, 22 hypotheses are developed and tested, correlating for 103 United States cities, the relationships of dependent variables (city's total recreation budget, recreation as a percent of total expenditure and recreation expenditure per capita) to selected sets of urban variables identified as demographic, labor force structure, local income, and public service variables. Results of the analysis suggest that the size of park budgets is positively associated with pet cent of population Non‐White, birth, death and marriage rates, crime rates, non‐agricultural employment, white collar employment, and income growth. Variables inversely related to budgets include the percent of lower to middle income groups and expenditures for education.

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  • William S. Hendon, 1982. "Accounting for Public Recreation Expenditures," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(2), pages 111-111, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:41:y:1982:i:2:p:111-111
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1982.tb03161.x
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