• What’s Your Kid Count?
Kid Count: What is the Difference Between Head-Count and Data-Base Count?
- The Head-Count Number is the actual counting of kids that come through all your programs each week. So you add up all the attendance for all your individual programs and get a Head Count number. This number will have duplicates, as the same kids might come to several of your programs per week. You would secure data here to compute perfect attendance.
- Data-Base Number should be the larger number, because it includes all your regular kids and all the visitors who have come, at least once. You have all your children regulars and visitors in one database, right?
So when I ask what is your average Head-Count Number is, per week, you will know what I am asking (your program numbers). But, if I ask about your Data-Base Numbers, I am asking about all your contacts regulars attenders and visitors, which represents your potential for growth.
What if I ask how many kids come from Member Families? This might be a smaller number, but would you have a way to tell me? So what is your Member Kid Count?
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