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Quality of Life Index // OUR TIMES AS TOLD BY STATISTICS

 
Published Feb. 5, 1996|Updated July 6, 2006

Amount Mary Lee Farrior spends in a year on clothes: $21,132

Robberies in Tampa, 1993: 2,965

Robberies in Tampa, 1994: 3,378

Robberies in Tampa, 1995: 2,578

Farmers in Hillsborough County: 2,760

Number of Hillsborough farmers who work full-time on the farm and do not have another job as their principal occupation: 1,268

Tampa Theatre attendance during the city of Tampa's 1993-94 budget year: 154,032

Anticipated Tampa Theatre attendance during the city's current budget year: 147,000

Percentage of college-bound Hillsborough County students who passed all three parts of the college placement test in 1994: 65.3

Percentage of Hillsborough students who passed in 1995: 64.1

Drop, in percent, in college placement test scores statewide: 0.7

Compiled by RICHARD DANIELSON with contributions from BRUCE VIELMETTI.

Quality of Life sources, Page 1B

Mary Lee Farrior's clothes: Court records in the divorce trial of J. Rex Farrior Jr. and Mary Lee Farrior.

Robberies: Tampa Police Department, Support Services Division, Preliminary 1995 Annual Crime Report.

Farmers: 1995 Florida Statistical Abstract, published by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, College of Business Administration, University of Florida. The abstract cites as its source the U.S. Department of Commerce report Bureau of the Census, 1992 Census of Agriculture: State and County Data, Florida.

Tampa Theatre: City of Tampa Recommended Annual Budget for the year ending Sept. 30, 1996.

Test scores: Florida Department of Education.