[nagdu] Statistics

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Julie J.
Yes, that sounds right.
I'd really like to see numbers from other schools, if only out of
curiosity. Anyone else want to trawl for stats from their school?
At TSE, they're in the annual report, which is easily available.  It also
usually has stats on puppy-to-guide-dog success rates, how many pups were
born, and such.  It's a chance for the execs to lay out their successes,
and their vision for the future.  There's also a lot of dry financial
data, but there's interesting stuff in there.  I don't know if other
schools make their annual reports available, but I find them pretty
interesting.
Tracy
Tracy

> Tracy,
>
> I think you are correct that the actual number of working years is greater
> than the 6.8 you got by dividing the number of working teams by the
> average
> graduates per year.  The problem is that the dogs that have graduated in
> the
> past six years have shorter working times simply because they are younger
> and haven't had the opportunity to reach the 6.8 years yet.
>
> Still it's a good thumbnail sketch of working longevity.  I think this
> calculation would be best used in comparing one school to another because
> the same issue of young dogs will be present across the board.  It won't
> represent 100% accurately the average working years of dogs from a
> particular school, but it would fairly accurately show the differences
> between schools.
>
> Julie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toni Whaley
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 11:52 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Statistics
>
> 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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