Questions 6 & 7) Number of employees

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The number of year round employees, peak season employees, and the sales for the respondents all correlate closely with each other, indicating that they are all good measurements of the size of the nursery. Using Spearman's correlation to compare each variable to the others, rho is greater than .7 in all cases, with p<.00005.

Table Q6-7, below, shows the average number of employees by region.

Table Q6-7. Average employees of, by region

 

Overall

Northeast

Southeast

Florida

Prairie

Southwest

West

Year round employees

40.0

29.6

34.6

67.5

43.2

39.3

91.9

Peak Season Employees

87.5

78.4

47.6

75.0

187

140

131

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