Do the Largest Firms Grow the Fastest? The Case of U.S. Dairies

Table 2: 1997 and 2002 Agricultural sales range width, median, and sample

distribution moments for incumbent cohorts ^a
Cohort	Range Width ($1,000)	Median ($1,000)	Mean ($1,000)	Standard Deviation ($1,000)	Skewness Coefficient	Kurtosis Coefficient
1997 Census 1	1,644	22	32	52	9.7	223.6
2	1,771	45	51	55	9.0	209.9
3	2,306	66	71	68	11.0	284.4
4	1,921	85	91	73	7.1	123.9
5	1,940	104	108	75	5.7	95.9
6	2,522	126	131	88	6.9	137.3
7	2,390	151	160	107	5.4	73.6
8	3,500	193	204	130	6.0	100.9
9	3,229	270	288	177	4.1	42.9
10	30,384	553	925	1,258	6.6	89.5
2002 Census 1	2,000	15	31	73	7.8	172.1
2	1,725	37	50	81	6.5	99.8
3	2,056	55	67	96	5.8	84.5
4	5,020	77	88	131	15.7	530.5
5	3,472	93	106	122	7.0	151.4
6	4,312	115	129	162	9.3	185.7
7	3,410	143	163	188	4.9	53.6
8	4,920	183	207	223	5.8	85.0
9	8,750	256	307	357	6.9	110.3
10	42,322	551	1013	1578	7.1	131.5
^a Sample size	;: 66,333 in 1997, 41,369 in 2002			. Data source:	Agricultural Census

(USDA, 1997, 2002)