A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Consumer Magazines:
A Ten-Year Longitudinal Study of Transformation

By

David Abrahamson
d-abrahamson@northwestern.edu

Rebecca Lynn Bowman
Mark Richard Greer
William Brian Yeado

Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University

Abstract

             To examine a number of fundamental questions about the U.S. consumer magazine publishing industry in a historical context, the research of a baseline 1990 quantitative study was duplicated exactly ten years later employing the same research methodology. It is evident that a number of the defining economic business parameters, such as levels of circulation, cover price, and advertising rates (in cost-per-thousand and page rates), have undergone significant change in the last decade. The periodical industry's responses to these changes reflect not only a variety of economic pressures--specifically, those related to cost management and the optimization of revenue within the framework decade’s market conditions--but also, perhaps speculatively, the ways in which magazines may continue to reflect the on-going sociocultural reality of American society.

 Introduction

             The purpose of this paper -- a follow-up on a baseline 1990 quantitative study -- is to examine a number of defining economic business parameters in magazine publishing (e.g., circulation, cover price, advertising rates, etc.) and how they have changed over the last decade. It also explores the market-related causes of these changes as well as the periodical industry’s management responses to them. In addition, it attempts to speculate on the ways in which these changes suggest magazines’ unique role in reflecting the on-going sociocultural reality of American society.

            Magazines are both economically driven business enterprises and culturally fueled vehicles of social mediation. Periodicals serve as cultural markers, reflective of the social reality in which they are produced, but are also economic entities, inherently subjected to their industry’s traditional business parameters. Hence, it is possible to examine changes within the magazine market as a whole for aspects that may illuminate a number of the prevailing sociocultural dimensions of contemporary America .

            Viewed quantitatively over a substantial period of time, it is clear that a number of defining magazine business parameters (e.g., levels of circulation, cover prices, advertising page rates, cpms) have played important determinants in shaping the U.S. consumer magazine industry. By studying the periodical industry’s aggregate reaction -- cost management and the optimization of revenue within market conditions -- to these economic pressures, one may not only try to understand how the industry has responded to market changes, but also find clues to the ways in which magazines mirror the sociocultural reality of their times.

Literature Review

             Any consideration of the scholarship associated with the magazine form must start with a respectful nod toward two magisterial historical surveys. Rich in chronicle and narrative, both Mott and Peterson did much to establish the periodical as a legitimate topic for scholarly study.2 More recent authors such as Tebbel and Zuckerman, Abrahamson (1996, 1995), Nord, Nourie and Nourie, and Van Zuilen have put many of the magazine industry's economic dimensions in an historical context, while Compaine (1982, 1974), Rankin, and Whitman summarized the defining parameters of the business operations essential to magazine publishing.3

            The scholarly literature on the more specific considerations related to the economic aspects of the magazine industry is not as rich as one might imagine, but a number of authors have illuminated a variety of essential details. Krishnan and Soley, Fletcher and Winn, and Malin have focused on the considerations concerning circulation and advertising readership and cycles, while Sumner, Norris, and Soley and Krishnan have investigated the role of revenue sources in the viability of magazines.4 The subject of gender as a factor in magazine readership and marketing has also been examined. Canape and Chung have studied aspects of male readership, while Damon-Moore and Waller have, from a historical perspective, explored the circumstances related to female readership.5

            A review of the literature, however, reveals surprisingly little quantitative analysis of consumer magazine industry as a whole; hence this effort to build on the previous baseline study (Abrahamson, 1991) one decade later.6

Methodology

             This article is based in large measure upon the results of quantitative research. An effort, however, has been made to focus the text on qualitative rather than quantitative issues. In most cases, statistics and results of statistical tests are relegated to footnotes, figures and tables. Readers who do not consult footnotes may assume that all relationships between variables have been tested for statistical significance, chiefly to determine if one can generalize from observations in the sample to the larger population (and with which this article is concerned, i.e. the consumer magazine industry as a whole).

            Information on U.S. consumer magazines was obtained from two editions a decade apart of the Consumer Magazine and Agri-Media Rates and Data directory published by the Standard Rate and Data Service, a standard industry reference.7 All data on individual magazines in the sample was then confirmed by telephone with every publisher. For the purpose of analysis, the data from the SRDS directories had a limitation that should be noted: Only those publications that accept advertising are included in the directories.

            An nth-name sort (n=7) of the 2000 SRDS directory's index of U.S. consumer magazines (2,422 valid entries) was performed, yielding a random sample of 346 entries. After telephone confirmation, publications that either had gone out of business or were published with a frequency less than quarterly (e.g. semiannually or annually) were removed from the sample, resulting in a dataset containing a total of 300 titles. In contrast, the 1990 study performed a sort of 2,645 entries yielding a total sample of 377 cases, which, upon validation, produced a final dataset of 288 cases.

            Where possible, measures of the significance and strength of all relationships were calculated. Hence, words such as "significant" or "strong" are used in the text to describe characteristics of all consumer magazines only when their use is supported by the results of statistical tests reported in footnotes. Relationships between nominal variables were tested using non-parametric tests such as Chi Square (X2) and, if samples were small, Fisher's Exact test (FE), but no significance was found.

                For interval variables, the number of cases and measures of central tendency (mean or median) and of dispersion (standard deviation, referred to as "s.d.") are provided in the text, figures, or footnotes. The statistical significance of differences between means was tested using the T-test and/or an analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the strength of relationships was measured by Eta Squared (E2). When assumptions required by parametric tests could not be made, the appropriate non-parametric test was used to evaluate differences in central tendency and dispersion, e.g. Mann-Whitney (M-W) and Kolgormorov-Smirnov (K-S) as alternatives to the t-test, and Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) instead of ANOVA. In all cases, probabilities are reported in footnotes as described above.

 Analytical Consid erations

The Role of Gender

            It has long been accepted that, unlike newspapers, a large number of the consumer magazines published in the United States are conceived and edited to appeal to gender-specific audiences. Though some publications -- typically newsmagazines, some general-interest publications, and a number of association and regional periodicals -- have "joint" readerships, a majority of magazines are clearly aimed at either male or female audiences.8

            Two factors may explain the prevalence of this delineation by gender. The first, a sociocultural one, suggests that the editorial subjects covered by most conventional magazines are often of predominant interest to only one gender. As evidence -- but at the risk of stereotyping -- one might offer the example of males and hunting, or of women and needlecrafts. The second factor hinges on the fact that many products and services sold in the United States are segmented by gender. Moreover, this is particularly true for those products that have traditionally used magazines as national advertising vehicles.9 Indeed, many of the national consumer magazines that are able to charge their advertisers the highest advertising rates (thereby implying that they offer advertisers the most desirable potential readers/customers) are gender-specific publications, e.g. the high fashion women's magazines or men's magazines focused on expensive hobbies such as private aviation.

            Over the last 15 years or so, the role of gender in both the editorial positioning and advertising prospects of magazines has begun to be the object of some scholarly attention. Much ground-breaking historical research on the issue of gender in magazine readership has been the work of journalism historians, but their principal focus has been on nineteenth-century developments.10 There was, however, an empirical benchmark study completed just over a decade ago that explored the causal relationships between the gender of audience and a number of quantitative measures applicable to magazine publishing, e.g. circulation size, frequency of publication, cover price, and price charged for advertising.11

 Sociocultural Factors

            Of particular interest was the possibility of exploring to what degree a number of defining generalizations about the magazine publishing industry have continued to hold true over the last decade. These primarily include the specific business decisions (e.g. levels of circulation, cover price, advertising rates, etc.) with which the magazine industry has responded to a variety of economic pressures and the ways in which those pressures may cause magazines to continue to reflect the on-going sociocultural fractionization of American society.

            For example, furthering a process that began with the rise of the special-interest magazine in the 1960s, magazines in the 1990s continued to remain highly "niched" and specialized around myriad specific leisure activities. With more available leisure time, the magazine-reading American public's interests proceeded to splinter and fractionate, leading the magazine industry to create a magazine, or at least a persona, to satiate all individual tastes. Magazines continued to reflect subtle differences among themselves while speaking to different readers with different leisure-time pursuits. The rise in not only the number of U.S. magazine readers, but also the number of magazines launched during the decade, is a testament to the eclectic and highly refined tastes among the leisure pursuits of a -- by and large -- economically successful populace.

 Current (2000) and Baseline (1990) Data

             What follows is the data that was obtained in the longitudinal study, with the 2000 results presented first, followed by the 1990 baseline results. For ease of comprehension and comparison, all of the data will be presented in a unified form, typically in a Figure Na/Figure Nb format where a = 2000 and b = 1990. The discussion of causes, effects, and significance follows.

 Circulation

            Approximately 14,000 different periodicals of all types are published in the United States. More than 2,000 of these can be considered consumer magazines,12 and these represent an estimated total circulation of more than 585 million readers.13 In terms of individual circulations, consumer magazines range in size from Parade (at 37 million, the largest circulation periodical but, as a Sunday newspaper supplement, sometimes not included in a consideration of conventional magazines) and Modern Maturity, the American Association of Retired Person's monthly (at 20 million), to small specialized publications with only a few hundred readers. 

            Interestingly, the mean circulation of all American consumer magazines has fallen from 442,851 in 1990 to 278,105 in 2000. Equally fascinating, however, is that due to continuing success of a large number of magazines with quite small readerships, the median circulation of U.S. consumer magazines, at 86,000 readers, did not change at all. (See Figures 1a and 1b.)

Frequency and Cover Price

            Today, 35 percent of all consumer magazines are published monthly and nearly 25 percent are published bimonthly, with a median cover price of $3.50. This represents a number of changes over the study decade. For example, almost 40 percent of all consumer magazines in 1990 were published monthly, and the median cover price, at $2.50, was $1 less than today. Moreover, there has been a significant increase in the percentage of bimonthly publications, from 18.9 to 24.7 percent.

            Also of note is the fact that, while free distribution (or "controlled" circulation) has long been the norm in the specialized business or "trade" magazine publishing, it has become more widely adopted in the consumer publications as well: Over the study decade the percentage of magazines using controlled circulation more than doubled, rising from 8.3 to 17.9 percent. (See Figures 2a, 2b, 3a and 3b.)

Advertising Rates

            The price charged for advertising is a function of both the size of the individual medium's audience and the attractiveness of that audience to advertisers. The median page rate for a black-and-white advertisement in consumer magazines in 2000 was $3,740, up from just under $2,600 in 1990.

            However, the price of advertising is perhaps more usefully expressed in terms of cost per thousand (cpm) readers or viewers. For magazines, the cost is that of a full-page black-and-white advertisement per thousand readers; for television, cost of a 30-second commercial per thousand viewers. For comparison, network television's cpm is typically between $6 and $12, a figure that, not coincidentally, is also the cpm of TV Guide. Large general-interest magazines such as Reader's Digest and Ladies Home Journal have cpm's in the $20 range, and the newsweeklies such as Time and Newsweek cluster around $30. The more specialized the audience is, the more a magazine can charge. As a result, magazines serving special reader interests often have cpms two or three times that of the newsmagazines. For example, Popular Photography has a cpm of about $65.

            The industry's median cpm rose from $32 in 1990 to $42 in 2000, an increase of more than 30 percent. In addition, other changes in the cpm and page-rate histograms of 1990 and 2000 are notable: In 2000, a stronger peak emerges in the page-rate data between prices of $27,000 and $57,000, supporting a claim to an increased specialization of magazines. (See Figures 4a, 4b, 5a and 5b.)

Comparative Results and Discussion

Circulation

                Gender was initially presumed to be a strong factor to explain the change in circulation over the past ten years. Indeed, almost 80 percent of all consumer magazines are now gender-specific (see endnote 2). During the decade, the percentage of female magazines remained roughly constant, but male magazines rose from 41.7 to 50.0 percent of readers, and joint magazines lost more than 10 percentage points. Viewed as a whole, 50 percent of all magazine are aimed at male readers, just under 30 percent are women's magazines, and the balance have joint readerships. Furthermore, the median circulation of magazines for men is 84,500 (up from 78,000 in 1990), while the median readership of women's publications fell from 105,500 in 1990 to 95,000 in 2000. (See Figures 6a and 6b.)

            At first glance, it might seem that the larger median circulation of female magazines is merely a function of the number of titles. If the total number of male and female readers of gender-specific magazines were equal, the availability of fewer female titles could, by simple arithmetic, explain the more female readers per female publication. Historically, however, the total number of male and female readers of gender-specific magazines is not equal. Indeed, the aggregate total circulation of all female magazines in 1990 was almost 50 percent larger than that of male publications: 203 million to 137 million.14 The 2000 data, however, shows a market convergence, with male readership rising to 180 million and female rising to only 210 million. So while it remains true that more females read magazines, the gap has closed significantly.

            Two pivotal changes emerge from this data. The first is that the percentage of titles devoted to men has notably increased, the percentage of women’s magazines has remained roughly the same and the number of magazines targeted at joint audiences has declined significantly. To explain the growth in the percentage of men's titles, one can perhaps begin with the notion of what might be called pent-up demand. It can be argued, albeit speculatively, that the retreat of feminism as a sociocultural force during the 1990s made possible an expansion of magazines serving men's interests that previously might have been regarded as less socially acceptable. Examples of the areas reflecting this increase might include a successful new category of magazines bawdily and unapologetically addressing post-pubescent male fantasies (e.g., Maxim, Stuff, and FHM). In addition, it should be noted that one of the largest categories of men's magazines relates to sports and leisure activities, and that the number and diversity of such activities -- and therefore the magazines that serve them -- has grown significantly in the past decade.

            Equally interesting are the changes in median circulation over the last decade. (See Figures 7a and 7b.) The precipitous decline of almost 15 percent in the median readership of magazines aimed at women and the significant increase in median male circulation suggest an interesting phenomenon. One way to understand this is to posit what might be called a mode reversal in the nature of the periodicals' editorial conceptualization of gender. Traditionally, female magazines had significantly larger circulations than male magazines, in part because women's interests seemed to extend across fewer but more generalized categories of subjects in a notably inclusive way. Men's increase, in contrast, tended to fractionate in concert with narrowly drawn (mostly leisure-active) interests. In the last 10 years, however, the defining of women's interests in narrow terms seems to have resonated with the female reading public. For example, rather than larger magazines dealing with a spectrum of topics related to appearance and attractiveness, now there are individual magazines addressing, for instance, the subject of beauty as an individual niche, or, even more specifically, the physical health aspects of beauty.

            The changes recorded in men's magazines are somewhat harder to explain. While it is apparent that they are becoming, at least in one sense, more like women's magazines, the causes are difficult to isolate. It is notable that the median circulations of all three types of magazines (female, male and joint) are merging toward a uniform number of readers.

Other Quantitative Measures (Frequency, Cover Price, CPM)

            Subsequent tests reveal changes since 1990 in a number of the other economic variables under consideration. These include publication frequency (which decreased from 12.0 to 11.0 issues per year); cover price (the median cover price jumped from $2.50 to $3.50); and cpm (the median rocketed from $32 to $42). (See Figure 8.)

            For one other variable, the price charged for a full-page black-and-white advertisement (page rate), the median increased from $2,591 to $3,470 during the 1990s. In all likelihood this is not directly related to gender per se. Rather, the primary determinant of page rates is circulation size, the median of which has slightly increased in the past 10 years.

            Each of these parameters, in turn, and their challenges over the decade reflect interesting forces at work within the magazine industry. The lowering of the median frequency from 12 to 11 issues per year can be explained by the growing insistence of advertisers to make any efficiencies possible be realized in their advertising spending. The manifestation of this insistence was a growing unwillingness to advertise at times of the year when readers were either away from home (e.g. August), or less likely to buy (e.g. January, after the holiday season). In response to this withholding of advertising dollars, the 1990s saw a growing trend in magazine publishing to move to a ten-times-per-year frequency, which allowed publishers to combine their July/August issues and their December/January ones as well. By saving on printing and distribution costs with fewer issues -- in effect, not printing those issues, which would have been poorly supported by advertising -- publishers were able to optimize profit and accommodate the desires of their advertisers. This move toward frequencies of less than the conventional monthly publication largely explains the decline in the median frequency during the 1990s.

            While the increase from $2.50 to $3.50 in cover price over the decade is substantial in percentage terms, it reflects the inherent price sensitivity magazines encounter on the newsstand. The increase in cover price can be ascribed to three factors: inflation, the increase in manufacturing and distribution costs, and competition on the newsstand. Moreover, it is clear that the American magazine-reading public is significantly price-resistant when dealing with the purchase of periodicals.

            The best way to examine the increase in advertising rates, which during the 1990s increased from $2,591 to $3,740, is to consider the growth of the median cpm, which is derived from dividing a magazine's page rate by its circulation. In rising from $32 to $42, the cpm reflects not only inflation and a boom economy in the 1990s, but also an increase in "niching" of the magazine industry. The latter reason rests on the fact that the more targeted the audience (and its greater propensity to consume), the greater is a magazine's ability to charge advertisers a higher page rate and therefore a higher cpm.

Subject Matter

            A last area of investigation is the possible relationship between economic factors affecting magazines and magazine categories based on subject matter. Using a developed categorization scheme,15 it is noteworthy that the two largest categories in both 2000 and 1990, Sports/Hobbies (38.7 percent and 32.0 percent, respectively) and Travel/Regional (15.0 percent and 19.3 percent, respectively) account for over half of the entire population of consumer magazines. The 2000 data show that a smaller but nonetheless significant category, Business/Finance, has decreased its share of the total by almost 50 percent. On the other hand, the Sports/Hobbies category saw a marked 20 percent increase during the decade. (See Figures 9a and 9b.)

            While somewhat speculative in nature, a number of sociocultural inferences might be drawn from the results of the analysis of relating economic factors and other sociological factors to subject matter. For example, it is clear that rising levels of education and affluence were accompanied by a concomitant increase in leisure during the 1990s. If one holds that magazines are a unique marker of the social reality of their time, it should come as no surprise that sports-related and travel/regional publications prospered during this period. More problematical, however, is that a conventional view of the "go-go" 1990s would be at a loss to explain the decreasing share of business/finance magazines. It is possible that a further time-phased analysis would show a marked expansion of this category through 1998, but then a severe decrease thereafter with the economic contraction that originated with the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the folding of many publications celebrating the New Economy.

Conclusion

            It is clear that the pressures of economic business parameters continue to be an important determinant in shaping the U.S. consumer magazine industry. By comparing the results of two quantitative studies that employ the same research methodology, this study addresses some of those economic factors affecting the publishing industry, as well as a number of related questions, in a historical context. It can be concluded that a number of the defining business parameters (e.g., levels of circulation, cover price, advertising rates, cpms, etc.) have undergone significant change in the last decade. Indeed, the median cover price and ad rate and have increased. These changes indicate the periodical market's reaction to the varied economic pressures of cost management and the optimization of revenue within the market conditions of the 1990s. Moreover, these forces may also serve to illuminate a number of the prevailing sociocultural dimensions of contemporary America, from the declining median number of issues per year to the rise in niched, gender-related magazine categories. Most importantly, these industry trends, spurred by diverse market changes, reflect -- perhaps speculatively — the ways in which magazines may mirror the cultural reality of the times in which they are produced.

 Endnotes

 1. Support for this effort from the Research Experience Program of the Northwestern University's Office of the Provost is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank Ms. Terry Evans and Ms. Erin Killian for their research assistance, particularly regarding the confirmation of current demographic and circulation data, and Ms. Lauren Wiener for her editorial contributions.

2. See Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 5 Volumes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938) and Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956).

3. See John W. Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America, 1741-1990 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991); David Abrahamson, Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical (New York: Hampton Press, 1996); David Abrahamson, ed., The American Magazine: Research Perspectives and Prospects (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1995); A.J. Van Zuilen, The Life Cycle of Magazines: A Historical Study of the Decline and Fall of the General Interest Mass Audience Magazine in the United States during the Period 1946-1972 (Uithorn, The Netherlands, 1977); Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie, American Mass Market Magazines (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990); and David Paul Nord, "An Economic Perspective on Formula in Popular Culture," Journal of American Culture 3 (Spring 1980): 17-31. See also Benjamin M. Compaine, The Business of Consumer Magazines (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982); Benjamin M. Compaine, Consumer Magazines at the Crossroads: A Study of General and Special Interest Magazines (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1974); William Parkman Rankin, The Evolution of the Business Management of Selected General Consumer Magazines (New York: Praeger, 1984); Neil Whitman, "Applied Economics: Magazine Publishers," Instructor 81.7 (March 1972): 44.

4. See Ramayya Krishnan and Lawrence Soley, "Controlling Magazine Circulation," Journal of Advertising Research 27.4 (1987): 17-23; Alan D. Fletcher and Paul D. Winn, "An Inter-Magazine Analysis of Factors in Advertising Readership," Journalism Quarterly 51.3 (Autumn 1974): 425-430; and Steven R. Malin, "An Empirical Investigation of Magazine Advertising Cycles" (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1980). See also David E. Sumner, "Who Pays for Magazines—Advertisers or Consumers?" Journal of Advertising Research 41.6 (Nov-Dec 2001): 61-66; Vincent P. Norris, "Consumer Magazine Prices and the Mythical Advertising Subsidy," Journalism Quarterly 59.2 (Summer 1982): 205-211, 239; and Lawrence Soley and Ramayya Krishnan. "Does Advertising Subsidize Consumer Magazine Prices?" Journal of Advertising 16.2 (1987): 4-9.

5.. See Charlene Canape, "Refashioning the Male Marketplace," Marketing & Media Decisions, March 1985, 84-86; and Man-Soo Chung, "Consumer Information-Seeking Behavior and Magazine Advertisements" (Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988). See also Helen Mary Damon-Moore, "Gender and the Rise of Mass-Circulation Magazines" (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987), and Mary Ellen Waller, "Popular Women's Magazines, 1890-1917" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1987).

 6. David Abrahamson, "The Role of Reader Gender as an Economic Determinant in U.S. Consumer Magazines." Communication Institute for Online Scholarship Research Database: 1991, <http://www.cios.org/getfile\ magstats_article>.

 7. Standard Rate and Data Service, Consumer Magazine and Agri-Media Rates and Data 73.3 (27 March 1991) and Standard Rate and Data Service, Consumer Magazine and Agri-Media Rates and Data 82.3 (28 March 2000).

 8. As a matter of convention, for the purposes of this study if gender-specificity<60 percent, a magazine can be characterized as having a "joint" readership. See also the section on Methodology.

 9. See Endnote 4 above.

 10. See Helen Mary Damon-Moore, "Gender and the Rise  of Mass-Circulation Magazines" (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987), and Mary Ellen Waller, "Popular Women's Magazines, 1890-1917" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1987).

 11. See Endnote 6 above.

 12. A precise definition of "consumer magazine" is, of course, somewhat elusive. For the purposes of this study, a periodical must meet the following tests to be considered: It must be listed in the SRDS Consumer Magazine directory (and therefore must carry advertising), and it must be published with a frequency of four times a year or more. See also Marian Confer, The Magazine Handbook (New York: Magazine Publishers of America, 1990), 5; and the section on Methodology.

 13. The total readership of 585 million has been calculated by multiplying the circulation total in the study sample (see "Sum" note, Figure 1) by the "nth" value (n=7) in the sampling sort: 83.4 million x 7 =  585 million. It should be noted that this calculation is a somewhat indirectly derived extrapolation, and hence caution is recommended when comparing the 2000 figure of 585 million with the 1990 total of 706.79 million. See also the section on methodology.

 14. Using the methodology outlined in Endnote 13 above, this 1990 calculation was based on the multiplication of sample sums (see Figure 7b) by "nth" value (n=7). Aggregate totals = 137,613,000 (male), 203,595,000 (female). Similar calculations for 2000 yielded the following results: female = 210,448,000 and male = 180,159,000.

 15. The magazines in the samples were originally categorized by grouping the 75 categories used in the SRDS directory into nine clusters based on a broadly defined commonality of subject matter:

 CLUSTER                SRDS CATEGORY

                        Associations...........Civic

                       College & Alumni

                       Education & Teacher

                       Fraternal Clubs & Associations

                       Labor & Trade Union

                       Mature

                       Military & Naval

                       Religious & Denominational

                        General/News...........Affluence

                        General Editorial (news)

                       Literary, Book Reviews & Writing

                       Media & Personalities

                       News (weekly)

                       News (daily, biweekly, other)

                       Newsweeklies (alternative)

                       Newsletters

                       Newspaper Magazines

                       Opinion, Thought & Commentary

                       Political & Social

                       Family/Home/Shelter....Babies

                       Bridal

                       Dressmaking & Needlework

                       Gardening

                       Home Service & Home

                       Parenthood

                       TV & Radio

                       Lifestyle/Fashion......Art & Antiques

                       Entertainment and Performing Arts

                       Epicurean

                       Fashion, Beauty & Grooming

                       Lifestyle

                       Men's

                       Popular Culture

                       Women's

                       Business/Finance.......Business & Finance

                       Computers

                       Group Buying Opportunities

                       Home Office & Small Business

                        Sports/Hobbies.........Adventure & Outdoor Recreation

                       Automotive

                       Aviation

                       Boating & Yachting

                       Campers & Recreational Vehicles

                       Camping

                       Crafts, Games, Hobbies & Models

                       Dancing

                       Dogs & Pets

                       Fishing & Hunting

                       Gaming

                       History

                       Horses, Riding & Breeding

                       Motorcycle

                       Music

                       Mystery, Adventure & Sci-Fi

                       Motorcycle

                       Photography

                       Special Interest Publications

                       Sports

                       Science/Health.........Fitness

                       Health

                       Mechanics & Science

                       Nature & Ecology

                       Science & Technology

                       Travel/Regional........Inflight & Enroute

                       Entertainment Guides & Programs

                       Hotel Inroom

                       Metro, State & Regional

                       Metro, Entertainment, Radio & TV

                       Travel

                       Youth/Other............Almanacs & Directorie

                        Black & African-American

                        Children's

                       Comics

                        Disabilities

                        Ethnic

                       Gay

                       Teen

                       Youth

 

            In a few instances, the SRDS categorization of some individual magazines in the random sample was somewhat at odds with reality. When this was the case, the publication was assigned to a more appropriate cluster. To satisfy assumptions of certain statistical tests, these nine clusters were "collapsed" into seven categories. When this was required, a certain inherent logic was applied, e.g. General/News and Association together, and Business/Finance combined with Science/Health. The resulting categories were:

    General/News/Association

   Family/Home/Shelter

   Lifestyle/Fashion

   Sports/Hobbies

   Business/Finance/Science/Health

   Travel/Regional

   Youth/Other

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Whitman, Neil. "Applied Economics: Magazine Publishers." Instructor 81.7 (March 1972): 44.

 

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FIGURE 1a. Circulation (all magazines) 2000

Count  Circ  Midpoint (000s)

   91     25  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   68     75  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   30    125  XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   19    175  XXXXXXXXXX

   16    225  XXXXXXXX

    5    275  XXX

    9    325  XXXXX

    4    375  XX

    8    425  XXXX

    8    475  XXXX

    8    525  XXXX

    1    575  X

    5    625  XXX

    0    675 

    3    725  XX

    3    775  XX

    1    825  X

    1    875  X

    1    925  X

    3    975  XX

    5  1,025  XXX

    0  1,075 

    2  1,125  X

    0  1,175 

    1  1,225  X

       =

    1  1,325  X                                                    Mean=278,105

       =                                                         (s.d.=676,118)

    1  1,525  X                                                   Median=86,513

       =                                                             Mode=35000

    2  1,675  X                                                    Minimum=1000

       =                                                      Maximum=8,174,046

    1  3,025  X                                                  Sum=83,431,616

       =

    1  4,525  X                                                 Valid cases=300

       =                                                        Missing Cases=0

    1  5,025  X

       =

    1  8,175  X

I.........I.........I.........I.........I.........I

              0        20        40        60        80      100

                           Histogram Frequency

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FIGURE 1b. Circulation (all magazines) 1990

Count    Circ  Midpoint (000s)

   76      25  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   46      75  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   21     125  XXXXXXXXXXX

   14     175  XXXXXXX

    7     225  XXXX

   12     275  XXXXXX

    8     325  XXXX

    6     375  XXX

    3     425  XX

    1     475  X

    2     525  X

    2     575  X

    3     625  XX

    3     675  XX

    1     725  X

    1     775  X

    2     825  X

    0     875

    3     925  XX

    1     975  X

    0   1,025

    1   1,075  X

    1   1,125  X

    3   1,175  XX

    1   1,225  X

              =

    1   1,675  X

    1   1,725  X

              =

    1   1,975  X

    1   2,025  X

              =                               Mean=442,851

    1   2,275  X                          (s.d.=1,667,941)

              =                              Median=86,000

    1   3,825  X                               Mode=75,000

              =                              Minimum=1,000

    1   5,125  X                        Maximum=16,555,000

              =                            Sum=100,970,000

    1   7,075  X

              =                            Valid cases=228

    1  16,375  X                           Missing cases=0

              =

    1  16,555  X

              I.........I.........I.........I.........I

              0        20        40        60        80

                         Histogram frequency

 

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FIGURE 2a. Frequency of Publication (all magazines) 2000

Frequency    Cases   Percent              Freq          Cases  Percent

(n/year)                          (n/year)

 4x           33     11.0          13x           3     1.0

 5x           1     0.3          17x           2     0.7

 6x           74     24.7          24x           6     2.0

 7x           7     2.3          26x           4     1.3   

 8x           8     2.7          36x           1     0.3

 9x           7     2.3          52x           25     8.3

10x           19     6.3          54x           1     0.3

11x           3     1.0          68x           1     0.3

12x          105     35.0                       ----   ----

Total         300    100

 

 4x    XXXXXXXXXXXX

 5x    X

 6x    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 7x    XXX

 8x    XXX

 9x    XXX

10x    XXXXXXX

11x    XX

12x    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

13x    XX

17x    X

24x    XXX

26x    XX

36x    X

52x    XXXXXXXXX

54x    X

68x    X

       I*********I*********I*********I*********I

       0%       10        20        30        40

 

Mean=13.4 (s.d.=13.17)  Median=11.0  Mode=12.0

Minimum=4  Maximum=68  Valid cases=300  Missing=0

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FIGURE 2b. Frequency of Publication (all magazines) 1990

  Frequency  Cases  Percent       Frequency  Cases  Percent

  (n/year)                        (n/year)

   4x          23     10.1        14x           1       .4

   5x           6      2.6        16x           1       .4

   6x          43     18.9        17x           1       .4

   7x           3      1.3        18x           1       .4

   8x           8      3.5        22x           2       .9

   9x           5      2.2        26x           6      2.6

  10x          11      4.8        30x           1       .4

  11x           8      3.5        43x           1       .4

  12x          91     39.9        51x           1       .4

  13x           2       .9        52x          13      5.7

                                           -------  -------

                                  Total       228    100.0

  4x   XXXXXXXXXXXXX

  5x   XXXX

  6x   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  7x   XXX

  8x   XXXXX

  9x   XXXX

 10x   XXXXXXX

 11x   XXXXX

 12x   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 13x   XX

 14x   XX

 16x   XX

 17x   XX

 18x   XX

 22x   XX

 26x   XXXX

 30x   XX

 43x   XX

 51x   XX

 52x   XXXXXXXX

       I.........I.........I.........I.........I.........I

       0%        8        16        24        32        40

 Mean=12.7 (s.d.=11.2)  Median=12.0  Mode=12.0

 Minimum=4  Maximum=52  Valid cases=228  Missing cases=0

 

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FIGURE 3a. Cover Price (all magazines) 2000

         Cover Price ($)

Count    Midpoint   

53     .25   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  *

 3     .75   XX

 6     1.25   XXX

 8     1.75   XXXX

17     2.25   XXXXXXXXX

39     2.75   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

10     3.25   XXXXX

87     3.75   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 8     4.25   XXXX

43     4.75   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 5     5.25   XXX

 8     5.75   XXXX

 2     6.25   X

 4     6.75   XX

 0     7.25  

 1     7.75   X

 0     8.25  

 1     8.75   X

I*********I*********I*********I*********I*********I

              0%         20        40        60        80       100

                     Histogram Frequency

Mean=$3.07 (s.d.=$1.85)  Median=$3.50  Mode=$0.00  Range=$8.95

Minimum=$0.00  Maximum=$8.95  Valid Cases=295 Missing Cases=5

*  Includes 53 cases where Cover Price=$0.00 (distrib. free).

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FIGURE 3b. Cover Price (all magazines) 1990

        Cover Price ($)

Count    Midpoint

  22    .25  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX *

  10    .75  XXXXXXX

  18   1.25  XXXXXXXXXXXX

  21   1.75  XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  29   2.25  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  73   2.75  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  17   3.25  XXXXXXXXXXX

  21   3.75  XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   5   4.25  XXX

   4   4.75  XXX

   3   5.25  XX

   0   5.75

   0   6.25

   1   6.75  X

   0   7.25

   1   7.75  X

   0   8.25

            =

   1  13.75  X

            =

   1  31.75  X

            I.........I.........I.........I.........I.........I

            0        15        30        45        60        75

                    Histogram frequency

  Mean=2.52 (s.d.=2.43)  Median=2.50  Mode=2.95  Range=32.00

  Minimum=0.00  Maximum=32.00  Valid cases=227  Missing cases=1

  * Includes 19 cases where Cover Price=$0.00 (distrib. free).

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FIGURE 4a. Full-Page B&W Ad Rate (all magazines) 2000

        Page Rate ($)

Count  Midpoint

48        700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

42      1,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

45     2,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

33     3,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

25     4,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

16     5,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 5     6,700 XXXXX

 9     7,700 XXXXXXXXX

 6     8,700 XXXXXX

 4     9,700 XXXX

 5     10,700 XXXXX

 3     11,700 XXX

 3     12,700 XXX   

 5     13,700 XXXXX

 2     14,700 XX

 4     15,700 XXXX

 0     16,700

 4     17,700 XXXX

 1     18,700 X

 3     19,700 XXX

 1     20,700 X

 1     21,700 X

                  

15     27,700 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 9     37,700 XXXXXXXXX

 8     47,700 XXXXXXXX

 2     57,700 XX

 0     67,700

 2     77,700 XX

       82,200

 3       to   XXX

     162,200        

                                                                                   I*********I*********I*********I*********I*********I

              0        10        20        30        40      50                                                                  Histogram Frequency

Mean=10,018.35 (s.d.=17,775.07)  Median=3740.00 Minimum=188

Maximum=161,350  Valid Cases=299  Missing Cases=1

 

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FIGURE 4b. Full-Page B&W Ad Rate (all magazines) 1990

         Page Rate ($)

Count    Midpoint

  44     700  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  57   1,700  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  27   2,700  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  16   3,700  XXXXXXXXXXXXX

  15   4,700  XXXXXXXXXXXXX

  11   5,700  XXXXXXXXX

   6   6,700  XXXXX

   6   7,700  XXXXX

   5   8,700  XXXX

   3   9,700  XXX

   1  10,700  X

   3  11,700  XXX

   1  12,700  X

   2  13,700  XX

   3  14,700  XXX

   1  15,700  X

   2  16,700  XX

   1  17,700  X

   3  18,700  XXX

   1  19,700  X

   1  20,700  X

   2  21,700  XX

   1  22,700  X

   0  23,700

   2  24,700  XX

   1  25,700  X

   1  26,700  X

      32,700 =

   7    to    XXXXXXXXX

      42,700 =

      53,700 =

   3    to    XXX

      78,700 =

   1 112,700  X

             =

   1 164,700  X

             I........I.........I.........I.........I.........I

             0       12        24        36        48        60

                           Histogram frequency

 

  Mean=7,764.99 (s.d.=16,584.43)  Median=2,591.50  Min.=212.00

  Maximum=164,780.00  Valid cases=228  Missing cases=0

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FIGURE 5a. Advertising CPM (all magazines) 2000

       CPM ($)

Count  Midpoint

 9       6    XXXXXXXXX    

30     16    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

43     26    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

58     36    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

46     46    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

30     56    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

27     66    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

15     76    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

12     86    XXXXXXXXXXXX

 6     96    XXXXXX

 8     106    XXXXXXXX

 3     116    XXX

 1     126    X

 2     136    XX

 1     146    X

 3     156    XXX

 0     166   

 0     176   

 1     186    X

 0     196   

       206   

 5     to     XXXXX

       356   

              I*********I*********I*********I*********I*********I********

              0        10        20        30        40      50

                                   Histogram Frequency

 Mean=52.85 (s.d.=44.38)  Median=42.00  Mode=31.00  Minimum=6.00

Maximum=353.00  Valid Cases=299  Missing Cases=1

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FIGURE 5b. Advertising CPM (all magazines) 1990

          CPM ($)

Count     Midpoint

   19     6  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   41    16  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   44    26  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   46    36  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   26    46  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

   19    56  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

    8    66  XXXXXXXX

    8    76  XXXXXXXX

    1    86  X

    2    96  XX

    4   106  XXXX

    2   116  XX

    0   126

    2   136  XX

    1   146  X

    1   156  X

    1   166  X

    0   176

    1   186  X

    1   196  X

    0   206

            =

    1   496  X

            I.........I.........I.........I.........I.........I

            0        10        20        30        40        50

                      Histogram frequency

 

 Mean=40.99 (s.d.=43.46)  Median=32.00  Mode=35.00  Min.=1.00

 Maximum=500.00  Valid cases=228  Missing cases=0

=======================================================================

FIGURE 6a. Gender of Readership (all magazines) 2000

Gender                                   Valid        Cum   

                     Cases  Percent              Percent              Percent

Male                 141    47.0          50.0          50.0

Female               82     27.3          29.1          79.1  

Joint                59     19.7          20.9          100.0

                     ----   ----           -----

              Total  282    94.0          100.0

 

             Valid cases=282  Missing cases=18

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FIGURE 6b. Gender of Readership (all magazines) 1990

 Gender                               Valid     Cum

                      Cases  Percent  Percent   Percent

 Male                 95     41.7     41.7      41.7

 Female               62     27.2     27.2      68.9

 Joint                71     31.1     31.1      100.0

                      ---    -----    -----

             Total    228    100.0    100.0

       Valid cases=228  Missing cases=0

=======================================================================

FIGURE 7a. Statistics, Circulation by Gender 2000

              Male          Female               Joint

Mean          182,538.53    366,640.71      400,369.24

S.d.          240,592.61    819,445.04    1,099,850.71

Median        84,578.00    90,521.00       85,675.00

Minimum                    2710          9000            5000

Maximum              1,300,000    5,000,000       8,174,046

Sum           25,737,933    30,064,538      23,621,785

Valid cases          141           82              59

Missing cases        0            0               0

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FIGURE 7b. Statistics, Circulation by Gender 1990

                  Male        Female             Joint

Mean            206,937        469,113         735,577

S.d.            361,228        869,469       2,832,785

Median           78,000        105,500         100,000

Minimum           4,000         10,000           1,000

Maximum       2,016,000      5,147,000      16,555,000

Sum          19,659,000     29,085,000      52,226,000

Valid cases          95             62              71

Missing cases         0              0               0

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FIGURE 8. Medians, all magazines

                  2000         1990     

Frequency         11.0         12.0         

Cover Price       $3.50        $2.50        

Page Rate     $3,740.50    $2,591.00    

CPM              $42.00       $32.00    

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FIGURE 9a. Subject-matter category (all magazines) 2000

Category                          Cases         Percent

        Association               12           4.0  

       General/News               24           8.0

Family/Home/Shelter               32           10.7

  Lifestyle/Fashion               25           8.3

   Business/Finance                 7           2.3

     Sports/Hobbies               116           38.7

     Science/Health               17           5.7

    Travel/Regional               45           15.0

        Youth/Other               22           7.3

                                 -----         ------

                           Total  300           100.0

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FIGURE 9b. Subject-matter category (all magazines) 1990

Category                         Cases                Percent

        Association                       20            8.8

       General/News                       20            8.8

Family/Home/Shelter                       19            8.3

  Lifestyle/Fashion                       18            7.9

   Business/Finance                       10            4.4

     Sports/Hobbies                       73           32.0

     Science/Health                       12            5.3

    Travel/Regional                       44           19.3

        Youth/Other                       12            5.3

                                     -----             ------

                                  Total   228                 100.0

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 DATASET 2000

 Dataset on U.S. Consumer Magazines, March 2000

 Random sample (300 cases) derived from nth-name sort from Standard Rate and Data Directory).

 ------------------------------Code Book 2000-------------------------------

1-3 Case number

    5 Gender (1 male, 2 female, 3 joint i.e. <60% gender-specific)

      7-13 Circulation, 000's

              15 Audited (1 yes, 2 no)

                17-23 Subscriptions

                        25-31 Single

                                33 Abrahamson category (1 thru 9, see MAGSTATS ARTICLE)

                                  35-37 SRDS category (nn0=nn+null, nn1=A, nn2=nnB)

                                      39-40 Median reader age, years

                                        42-44 Book Size    

                                             46-48 Cover price (e.g. 0200=$2.00)

                                                 50-55 Page rate, 1xB&W (e.g. 005145=$5,145)

                                                        57-59 CPM, $ (page rate/circ in 000s)

                                                            61-62 Publishing frequency/year

                                                               64-68 Zip code

                                                                     70+ Magazine title

 

---------------------------------Dataset--------------------------------

001 1 0117679 2 0016230 0101449 6 330 20 130 395 004900 026 12 44102 A.P.(Alternative Press)                                            

002 1 0381998 1 0381998 0000000 2 001 41 120 600 015850 026 12 60611 ABA Journal                                                         

003 3 8174046 1 N/A     0000000 2 380 43 024 000 079200 067 52 02494 Access Magazine                          

004 1 0086027 1 0072278 0013749 9 211 41 088 395 005568 116 24 90028 Advocate                                                           

005 1 0083000 2 0083000 0000000 6 040 43 056 400 003650 051 10 20170 Air Line Pilot                                                      

006 1 0004800 2 0004800 0000000 6 030 40 036 400 000525 059 12 80104 Alfa Owner                                                          

007 2 0050000 2 0050000 0000000 7 230 40 080 395 002728 014 04 75229 Allergy & Asthma Health                                            

008 1 0042681 1 0040209 0000000 1 420 55 032 225 001133 063 52 10019 America                                                              

009 3 0047400 2 0038064 0000000 6 190 41 075 325 001470 022 06 56301 American Bowhunter                                                   

010 2 0041000 2 0041000 0000000 7 191    072 450 001750 046 06 91403 American Fitness                                            

011 1 0319741 1 0315295 0004460 2 220 49 N/A 495 015300 035 08 10011 American Heritage                                                    

012 1 0081466 2 0034955 0045477 6 311 42 148 399 002816 043 13 06905 American Iron Magazine                                              

013 1 0213786 1 0213710 0000000 6 311 43 086 000 006575 102 12 43147 American Motorcyclist                                               

014 1 0065365 2 0047145 0018220 6 311 48 100 395 003290 014 08 55369 American Rider                                                      

015 1 0090000 2 0042000 0048000 6 450 40 120 399 005120 059 06 55125 American Snowmobiler                                                

016 2 0012500 2 N/A     N/A     9 100 19 130 495 000700 029 12 94107 Animerica Extra                                                     

017 1 0044737 2 0043154 0004800 6 441 63 068 450 001980 026 68 20016 Archaeology Odyssey                                                 

018 3 0010000 2 0002000 0008000 4 020 40 042 000 000799 065 04 80537 Art Revue                                                           

019 2 0142000 2 0060000 0025250 6 110 53 110 395 003730 031 06 54990 Arts & Crafts                                                       

020 1 0175227 1 0118000 0057000 7 430 48 130 450 004620 031 12 53187 Astronomy                                                            

021 2 0032720 2 0017760 0009121 8 301 48 000 N/A 003800 080 12 30342 Atlanta Homes Lifestyles                                        

022 1 0230283 1 0010359 0016494 6 311 43 072 350 011670 072 06 55369 ATV Magazine                                                         

023 1 0328189 1 0327204 0000985 6 030 46 060 250 019423 025 52 48207 AutoWeek                                                            

024 1 0279045 1 0206339 0072706 6 000 42     395 017710 137 09 18098 Backpacker                                                          

025 2 0065000 2 0000000 0000000 3 382 37 072 000 002287 071 12 21228 Baltimore 's Child                                                   

026 1 0067910 2 0022462 0044269 6 450    000 325 002900 033 26 27701 Baseball America                                                     

027 1 0043000 1 0026000 0015300 6 330 28 088 495 004385 029 12 94403 Bass Player                                                         

028 2 0173700 2 0000000 0000000 3 382 34 170 000 002410 021 12 95032 Bay Area Parent                                                     

029 1 0015242 2 0012794 0000425 6 450 31 036 200 000900 047 26 53590 Bear Report                                                         

030 1 0035000 2 0008679 0025580 6 450 39 092 499 000920 035 12 75248 Beckett Racing Mtrsprts                          

031 1 0005990 2 0005990 0000000 6 130 40 068 250 000188 049 12 05451 Better Beagling                                                     

032 2 0465000 2 N/A     N/A     3 240 41 118 450 033685 031 04 50309 Better Homes & Gard DIY

033 1 0420000 1 0000000 0000000 7 230 49 088 000 010295 014 12 30339 Better Nutrition                                                    

034 2 0019000 1 0002000 N/A     3 382 35 096 000 002600 039 12 10003 Big Apple Parents' Paper                                            

035 1 0169729 1 0149212 0020517 6 450 33 127 399 005540 042 10 92629 Bike                                                                

036 3 0076147 2 0058852 0012893 7 350 53 100 395 002245 040 06 53187 Birder's World                                                      

037 2 0221730 2 0078925 0110690 9 051 35 086     010450 033 07 10001 Black Diaspora                                                       

038 1 0053066 2 0016581 0036485 6 110 52 142 495 001835 018 12 54990 Blade                                                               

039 1 0500000 1 0050000 0000000 6 060 45 094 200 024350 089 06 10025 Boat/U.S. Magazine                                                   

040   0423000 2 N/A     N/A     8 170    N/A 000 005800 042 04 02193 Boston Ballet Guide                                                 

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273 3 0043000 2 0043000 0000000 3 470 42 144 225 002715 052 52 28152 TV Plus                                                              

274 3 0235000 2 0119750 0000000 1 092 49 068 200 004450 048 04 90024 UCLA Magazine                                                       

275 2 0850434 1 0494468 0355966 4 171 32 100 000 051760 055 52 10104 US Weekly                                                           

276   0081528 2 0079028 0001968 6 450 11 052 395 001831 044 06 46225 USA Gymnastics                                                      

277 3 0016512 2 0016512 0000000 6 450 25 048 000 000850 053 06 46225 USRowing                                                            

278 3 0050000 1 0010000 0000000 2 001 40 028 000 002340 023 12 95126 Valley Scene                                                        

279 2 0213333 2 0125570 0041250 7 230 49 074 399 005148 061 04 94518 Veggie Life                                                         

280 2 0700000 2 0700000 0000000 1 281 65 036 000 009400     08 64111 VFW Auxiliary                                                        

281 1 0071931 1 0059183 0012748 3 470 50 156 399 004480 065 13 95928 Videomaker                                                          

282 1 0035000 2 0035000 0000000 6 450 50 044 295 002495 031 06 55422 Virginia Golfer                                                      

283   0286410 2 0050000 0200000 7 230 58 028 000 002537 080 04 65201 Voice of the Diabetic                                               

284 1 0070000 2 0000000 0040000 6 450 22 164 395 003820 010 09 32789 Wakeboarding Magazine                                                

285 3 0078556 2 0027899 0010686 4 020 54 114 395 001015 187 12 54990 Warman's Today's Collctr                                          

286 1 0100000 1 0075000 0000000 6 450 49 120 400 003725 096 12 20002 Washington Golf Monthly                                             

287 1 0030418 1 0016339 0014079 6 060 36 100 350 002515 026 09 55369 Watercraft World                                                    

288 1 0132037 2 0092426 0039611 6 110 50 068 499 002200 093 06 94518 Weekend Woodcrafts                                                  

289 3 0024000 1 0000000 0024000 8 170 41 090 000 000785 033 52 33162 Welcome to Miami/Beaches                                    

290 1 0068802 1 0065361 0003440 6 190 52 056 185 002483 129 52 92626 Western Outdoor News                                                

291 1 0015218 1 0014226 0000992 6 190 39 139 475 001536 106 06 90048 Wing & Shot                                                         

292 2 0049558 2 0034769 0011870 8 301 50 100 395 002825 026 06 53515 Wisconsin Trails                                                    

293 2 0450000 1 0000000 0450000 3 210 44 112 399 027000 088 04 10019 Woman's Day Gardnng & OL

294 1 0600236 1 0533636 0066600 6 110 56 112 595 031175 050 09 50309 Wood Magazine                                                       

295 1 0042286 2 0018790 0023220 6 110 50 084 499 002025 151 06 94949 Woodwork                                                            

296 2 0929121 1 0910539 0018582 3 382 35 116 295 048840 045 10 10020 Working Mother                                                      

297 1 0165000 2 0134646 0022731 6 231 58 092 399 003770 053 07 20175 World War II                                                         

298 1 0013890 2 0010515 0002400 4 171 49 058 500 002592 016 10 90048 Written By                                                          

299 3 0702210 1 0671506 0030704 8 301 53 150 299 023225 117 10 03444 Yankee Magazine                                                      

300 1 0030000 2 0007500 0000000 9 510 17 036 350 003500 042 06 45140 Young Money                                                         

DATASET 1990

 Dataset on U.S. Consumer Magazines, March 1991

Available from http://www.cios.org/getfile\magstats_dataset

 Random sample (228 cases) derived from nth-name sort from Standard Rate and Data Directory).

 ------------------------------Code Book 1990-------------------------------

1-3 Case number

    5 Gender (1 male, 2 female, 3 joint i.e. <60% gender-specific)

      7-11 Circulation, 000's

            13 Abrahamson category (1 thru 9, see MAGSTATS ARTICLE

             14-16 SRDS category (nn0=nn+null, nn1=A, nn2=nnB)

                 18-19  Median reader age, years

                    21-24  Cover price (e.g. 0200=$2.00)

                         26-31  Page rate, 1xB&W (e.g. 005145=$5,145)

                                33-35  CPM, $ (page rate/circ)

                                    37-38  Publishing frequency/year

                                       40+ Magazine title

 

------------------------------Dataset----------------------------

 01 1 00095 1310 25 0200 005145  54 52 Air Force Times

002 2 00250 6340    0225 006080  24 13 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery

003 1 00034 1420 55 0125 000850  25 43 America

004 2 00015 7350    0500 000800  53 05 American Birds

005 1 00011 6130 50 0150 000672  61 52 American Field

006 2 00806 7230    0195 016630  21 10 American Health

007 2 00828 1200 52 0075 008510  10 06 Am. Legion Auxiliary Nat. News

008 3 00087 8170 38 0000 002680  31 05 American Repertory Theater Guide

009 1 00040 6450 37 0295 002135  53 06 American Snowmobiler

010 2 00200 2220 58 0295 005170  26 06 Americana

011 3 00010 8301 40 0250 001190 119 12 Annapolitan

012 2 00060 4020    0075 001084  18 51 AntiqueWeek

013 2 00013 6250 35 0500 000400  31 12 Arabian Horse World

014 3 00154 1281 67 0100 004480  29 12 Arizona Senior World

015 2 00500 7230 62 0250 008600  17 06 Arthritis Today

016 2 00274 6020 50 0275 005405  20 12 Artist's

017 1 00054 6030 34 0200 002190  41 12 Automundo

018 3 00285 6450 37 0200 004400  15 08 Balls and Strikes

019 2 00600 9510 08 0195 012000  20 04 Barbie

020 1 00288 6450 30 0350 000950   3 12 Baseball Card Price Guide Monthly

021 1 00533 6190 35 0295 015490  29 10 Bassmaster

022 1 00019 6450    0200 000770  41 26 Bear Report

023 1 00104 5080    0200 003690  35 12 Better Investing

024 1 00020 6450 34 0250 000730  37 06 Billiards Digest

025 2 00020 8301 46 0350 002025 101 06 Boca Raton

026 2 00067 3381 35 0083 002400  36 12 Boston Parents' Paper

027 1 00164 6190 38 0295 002434  15 11 Bowhunting World

028 1 00042 8460 51 0300 005700 136 11 Business Traveler International

029 3 07100 3302 37 0175 078485  11 12 Cable Guide

030 3 00026 3302    0000 000236   9 12 Cableview-Indianapolis

031 3 00357 8301 47 0200 014725  41 12 California

032 2 00010 6250 30 0295 000440  44 12 California Horse Review

033 1 00110 3470 35 0295 001399  13 08 Camcorder

034 1 00005 6450 25 0200 000500 100 06 Canoe & Kayak Racing News

035 1 00950 6030 30 0295 035460  37 12 Car and Driver

036 3 00250 5080 26 0250 025440 102 06 Career Focus

037 3 00027 3210 46 0200 000990  37 08 Carolina Gardener

038 2 00129 6130    0250 005043  39 12 Cats

039 2 00033 6110 45 0225 000660  20 10 Ceramics

040 1 00092 6030    0295 002295  25 06 Chevrolet High Performance

041 2 00073 3381 35 0116 002318  32 12 Chicago Parent Newsmagazine

042 2 00076 9510 09 0174 000800  11 08 Child Life, Ages 9-11

043 3 00050 4180 45 0295 001725  35 06 Chile Pepper

044 2 00220 1420 47 0250 002528  11 06 Christian Reader

045 2 00040 1420 56 0127 001200  30 11 Church Herald

046 2 00015 8301 38 0295 001635 109 04 CITI

047 3 00196 2220    0250 006168  31 09 Class

048 3 00042 8301 44 0195 003150  75 12 Cleveland

049 1 00075 6110 51 0195 001840  25 52 Coin World

050 3 00014 4020 50 0395 000620  44 09 Collector's Showcase

051 2 00023 8301 40 0250 001837  80 06 Colorado Homes & Lifestyles

052 1 00117 6190         001740  15 04 Columbia Waterfowl & Upland Game

053 1 00035 2220 54 0375 003190  91 12 Commentary

054 1 00340 5101    0295 007175  21 12 Computer Shopper

055 2 00700 2220 47 0250 017645  25 10 Country America

056 1 00004 6190 45 0125 000212  53 12 Dakota Outdoors

057 1 00045 1092 50 0300 001565  35 09 Dartmouth Alumni

058 1 00275 8460 44 0000 018750  68 06 Departures

059 3 00050 8301 39 0000 003622  72 12 Diablo

060 3 01082 9092 20 0000 021600  20 04 Directory of Classes

061 3 00085 1200    0200 002970  35 04 Discovery YMCA

062 3 00285 5080 34 0300 009495  33 06 Dollars & Sense

063 1 00074 8301 56 0295 001850  25 12 Down East

064 1 00321 6311 32 0350 013789  43 12 Easyriders

065 2 00250 6340    0225 006080  24 13 Ellery Queen's Mystery

066 1 00056 6060    0125 001980  35 12 Ensign

067 2 00039 6250 35 0750 001397  36 04 Equine Images

068 2 00255 4490 36 0250 004457  17 06 Executive Female

069 1 00054 6030 35 0295 001140  21 06 Fabulous Mustangs & Exotic Fords

070 2 05147 3490 44 0139 075470  15 17 Family Circle

071 2 00446 8301 40 0000 018310  41 06 Family Living

072 1 00170 6450 35 0350 002450  14 06 Fantasy Baseball

073 1 02016 6190 36 0195 041735  21 12 Field & Stream

074 1 00082 6110 40 0295 001850  23 08 FineScale Modeler

075 1 00117 6190 42 0250 004140  35 07 Fishing Facts

076 2 00021 8301 60 0200 001384  66 12 Florida Living

077 2 00573 3210 47 0295 008690  15 06 Flower & Garden

078 2 00050 4020    3200 009090 182 06 FMR

079 1 00063 6450 25 0295 000425   7 12 Football,Bsktbll,Hockey Collector

080 1 00115 2410 44 0695 005830  51 05 Foreign Affairs

081 1 00339 6030    0295 007545  22 12 Four Wheeler

082 1 00800 8460 33 0149 010500  13 06 Friends

083 1 00362 4300    0400 004325  12 12 Gallery

084 3 00125 7350 38 0395 003420  27 06 Garbage

085 1 00030 8301 39 0000 001800  60 04 Georgia

086 2 02300 4500 28 0250 042580  19 12 Glamour

087 1 00057 9510 11 0150 003450   5 12 Goofy Adventures

088 3 00027 1420 34 0495 000910  34 05 Group's Junior High Ministry

089 1 00043 6030 32 0250 001080  25 06 Guide to Muscle Cars

090 2 00022 8301 47 0300 002550 116 10 Gulf Coast

091 1 00007 6190 40 0323 000299  43 04 Gun Show Calendar

092 2 00116 4490    0250 006328  55 08 Harper's Bazaar En Espanol

093 1 00205 5080 41 1350 012000  59 06 Harvard Business Review

094 3 00085 8010    0000 003505  41 12 Hawaiian Airlines

095 3 00150 5080 44 0200 006354  42 12 Hispanic Business

096 2 00925 3240 36 0195 024920  27 12 Home

097 1 00350 5080 42 0295 014340  41 12 Home Office Computing

098 3 00069 8301 46 0200 003455  50 12 Honolulu

099 2 00080 6250 24 0200 000900  11 12 Horse and Horseman

100 1 00047 6250 50 0300 001254  27 12 Horseman's Journal

101 1 00904 6030    0295 022970  25 12 Hot Rod

102 3 00200 3240 36 0295 007485  37 05 House Beautiful's Houses & Plans

103 1 00325 6190 34 0295 007700  24 12 Hunting

104 3 00270 8301 55 0300 002145   8 04 Illinois Farm Bureau Almanac

105 1 00126 5101 40 0395 006250  50 12 InCider A+

106 3 00070 8301 35 0225 004490  64 08 Inside Chicago

107 2 00095 6110 60 0295 001200  13 06 International Doll World

108 3 00014 3302    0000 000550  39 12 Jacksonville Public Broadcst News

109 1 00057 6330 36 0295 001600  28 10 Jazztimes

110 3 00700 9510 13 0000 009745  14 18 Junior Scholastic

111 3 00347 8301 40 0150 002800   8 12 Kentucky Living

112 2 01139 5080 58 0250 021855  19 12 Kiplinger's Personal Finance

113 3 00060 8010 37 0416 001850  31 06 Lacsa's World

114 3 00006 8301 40 0200 000950 158 12 LB Monthly

115 3 01713 2220 35 0295 054110  32 14 Life

116 1 00616 1091 56 0037 004438   7 10 Lion

117 3 00110 3240 40 0325 003370  31 06 Log Home Living

118 3 00172 8301 44 0250 007520  44 12 Los Angeles

119 2 01178 4500 29 0250 027160  23 12 Mademoiselle

120 3 00017 7230 37 0300 000898  53 10 Mainstream

121 2 01000 1281 54 0175 024225  24 06 McCall's Silver Edition

122 1 00278 7300    0295 012055  43 06 Men's Health

123 3 00130 6450 32 0195 004850  37 11 MetroSports

124 3 00372 8460 42 0050 004920  13 06 Midwest Motorist

125 2 00025 6110 55 0395 000895  36 04 Miniature Collector

126 3 00010 8301 35 0400 001650 165 04 Missouri

127 3 00040 4500 27 0200 002250  56 12 Models & Talent Interntl Network

128 3 00110 2220 38 0295 004095  37 06 Mother Jones

129 1 00063 6450 23 0295 001895  30 12 Mountain Bike Action

130 1 00075 6030 33 0295 002618  35 12 Muscle Car Review

131 2 03803 2220 37 0085 039500  10 52 National Enquirer

132 1 00145 2410 49 0295 005230  36 26 National Review

133 3 00046 1310 35 0057 001536  33 52 Navy News

134 3 00025 8301 42 0200 001900  76 12 Network Publications-Manchester

135 1 00038 2220 44 0300 002000  53 12 New Dimensions

136 2 00070 9510 16 0000 001080  15 08 New Expression

137 1 00097 2410 44 0350 004500  46 52 New Republic

138 1 00107 2280 48 0225 006200  58 22