Stats Junkies Corner – August 2009

If you’re one of the wonderful people who’s organised a club trip over the last few years, you may have noticed that someone often nags you afterwards to find out how it went. This is all part of the statistics process, and it’s one of the ways our club’s valiant leaders keep an eye on how well everything’s ticking over. Showing off the trip stats is usually left for the annual report, but we thought we might experiment with including a few in the newsletter every so often to see how it goes.

Below is a comparison of the three month period from May to July for the last 3 years. (May seemed a good place to start, because January to April were never collected for the first two of those years.) Stats have been compiled by Gail Shuttleworth (between May and December 2007), and Mike McGavin (since May 2008), so keep in mind there are possibly small differences in data collection and recording techniques.

Although an effort is made to track down trip leaders after the date, sometimes it’s just too difficult to get hold of people, especially if the email system doesn’t work, although most of the time it’s not a problem. The stats below do not show trips that were cancelled, trips that were merged with others, or trips for which no response was available. The full statistics record all of this to some extent.

So, here are the trips that ran during the 3 months from 1st May to 31st July – this year and compared to the previous two years.