[nagdu] Statistics

[Toni Whaley]

Hello!

I've heard from at least two schools that the average working life of dogs
who work regularly in large cities is around 6-7 years. This makes sense to
me given how crazy people drive especially here in the northeast. People
around here run red lights. Right on red is legal in this state. However,
there are people who think left on red is OK too. But drivers aren't the
only crazy people. We have people running and skate boarding down busy
sidewalks. A couple months back some idiot came running down the sidewalk
toward us. Haze tried to get out of the way, but things happened too fast.
The next thing I knew was that I was lying flat on my back. Had I not been
carying a backpack filled with all kinds of stuff I would have cracked my
head on the ground and probably gotten a concussion. (This person never even
stopped to see how I was.) Fortunately, Haze wasn't hurt, and I was only
pretty sore for a couple of days.

Toni

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:44 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [nagdu] Statistics

I'm reading TSE's 2012 Annual Report, which is full of interesting
statistics, if one is into that kind of thing.
So I took the number of working teams, 1710, and divided it by the old
average number of teams graduated in a year, about 250, and came up with an
average worklife of 6.84 years, which actually sounds about right, though
I'd have thought it would be closer to 8.
I used the old average yearly number, even though they bumped it up last
year to 275, which drops the average worklife closer to 6 years.  But I
figure most of the teams working now went out before last year.
Anyway, there it is.  If other schools' annual reports have similar data,
I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Tracy


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