ETCETERA / Index
Videotape rentals from video libraries in 1992:
453,000,000,
Borrowings from public libraries:
578,600,000
Percentage of each benefit dollar spent by private health insurers in the US on business costs:
37.2
By Canadian single-payer public health insurers:
0.9
Hospital services spending per American:
dollars 2,566
Per Canadian:
dollars 1,837
Percentage of UK company directors who get free private health insurance:
87
Spending on programme imports by UK TV broadcasters in 1986:
pounds 99,000,000
In 1992:
233,000,000
Levy paid to the Treasury annually by Yorkshire-Tyne Tees commercial television:
pounds 52,700,000
By Central:
pounds 2,000
Asian immigrants to Canada in 1957:
3,244
In 1991:
119,955
European immigrants to Canada in 1957:
257,540
In 1991:
48,055
Percentage of UK 1st-class mail delivered overnight:
90
Italian:
14
Sources: British Videogram Association/BFI Handbook 1994/CIPFA; Library Association; Citizen Action/Krantz, L; America by Numbers, Houghton Mifflin, NY; ibid; Canada News (CS-1990); ibid; Institute of Directors'
Salaries; CSO Bulletin; ibid; Independent Television Commission; ibid; The 1994 Canadian Global Almanac, Macmillan Canada; ibid; ibid; ibid; The Economist; ibid.
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