[Accrs] Fair results

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

All,

Below are the Fair attendance and donation results which were supplied 
by John Kolberg.  I did the paragraph about front and back door 
attendance, which is followed by John's thoughts on what it all means.  
The results for the last three years are also included.

2019 ACCRS attendance:  51,951
2018 ACCRS attendance:  47,031
% change year over year:  10.5%

2019 Donations:                $7,360
2018 Donations:                $6,695
% change year over year:  9.9%

2019 Back door donations, % of total:  30%
2018 Back door donations, % of total:  22%


	ACCRS 	Fair 	ACCRS % of Fair 	
	Donations
Year 	Attendance 	Attendance 	Attendance 	Donations 	per Head

2017 	46,855 	463,783 	10.10% 	5,583.00 	0.119
2018 	47,031 	426,000 	11.04% 	6,695.00 	0.142
2019 	51,951 	454,276 	11.44% 	7,360.00 	0.142

Dennis and Paula did two, one hour surveys where they counted the front 
and back door entries.  The average of the two sets of figures indicates 
the back door accounted for 14.2% of the total of the front and back 
doors.  The actual numbers combined were 148 rear and 891 front for a 
total of 1039.  So what number multiplying 891 yields 1039? That number 
times 51,951 might be a reasonable approximation of the total.  That 
number is 1039/891= 1.166.  That times 51,951 is 60,575.

The following is from John Kolberg:

The 2019 visitor attendance at ACCRS during the Fair was 51,951, an 
increase of 10.5% over last year.  The significance of that increase 
becomes clouded when comparing it with other statistics. The overall 
Fair attendance also increased year over year---7.3%. Therefore, the 
ACCRS attendance as a percent of the overall Fair attendance improved 
slightly from 11.1 to 11.4, but was below the 25-year average of 12.2.  
Also, while the ACCRS year over year attendance improved significantly, 
it was only three percent above the 25-year average.

Gary Lewis

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