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TABLE 2. — Periods of initial decline of per capita consumption. 
Number of cases when the standard deviation of e is 
0.005 0.01 0.02 
Zero . . 
One year 
Two years 
Three years 
Four years 
Other cases 
n 
15 
5 
N 
4 
7 
13 
11 
3 
‘9 
TABLE 3. — Quartiles of decade growth rates of per capita 
consumption ( x 10,000). 
[Lower quartile . 
Median Coe. 
Upper quartile 
Lower quartile . 
Median .. 
Upper auartile 
Lower quartile . . 
Median . . . . . 
Upper auartile . 
First Second Third 
jecade decade decade 
Fourth Fifth 
decade decade 
g,= 0.005 
1959 5626 6494 6747 7095 
2184 5730 6738 7014 7283 
2433 5885 6880 7954 7483 
a, =0.01 
718 5462 6330 6475 6976 
2166 5672 6818 7010 7344 
2664 5980 7109 7489 7759 
oc, = 0.02 
1231 5133 6004 5934 6736 
2130 5553 6980 7004 7474 
21928 6169 7546 7061 89288 
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