New Staff Orientation

Demographics and EvaluationLeah Nell Adams

NTW 2004

What I do

• Evaluations for National AgrAbility• Impact Evaluation Survey• Provide advice to state projects on evaluations

• Keep track of client demographics

• MOVE US TOWARDS REPORTING IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES

Demographics

What should you track?

And

Why?

In the future-Outcomes

• We will develop outcome questions to include in this data

How should you send it to me?

• Excel

• Paper

• Access

• SPSS

Results of demographics 2003-2004

Age all clients 03-04

age

95.085.075.065.055.045.035.025.015.05.0

250

200

150

100

50

0

Std. Dev = 16.70

Mean = 49.1

N = 855.0021

63

152

202213

89

60

41

12

Age NEW clients only 03-04

Age ALL clients 03-04

age

95.085.075.065.055.045.035.025.015.05.0

250

200

150

100

50

0

Std. Dev = 16.70

Mean = 49.1

N = 855.0021

63

152

202213

89

60

41

12

age

95.085.075.065.055.045.035.025.015.05.0

250

200

150

100

50

0

Std. Dev = 15.15

Mean = 50.6

N = 458.00

38

77

124113

51

31

age 01-04

100.090.0

80.070.0

60.050.0

40.030.0

20.010.0

0.0

400

300

200

100

0

Std. Dev = 16.57

Mean = 49.1

N = 2063.00

Age of all clients 01-04

FYI- that small blip at age 20 is comprised of 20% non- ag moving vehicle incidents and aHigh rate of para and quad (17 and 10%)

Gender 03-04

21.2%

78.8%

female

male

What type of operation?

84

264

8

9

48

31

125

125

290

29

46

20

90

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Agri-business

Field/Grain crops

Nursery crops

Orchard Crops

Vegetable Crops

Fruit Crops

Hay

Dairy

Livestock

Poultry

Other Animal

Specialized Crops

Other

Number of AgrAbility clients involved in operation 2003-2004

Other operations

• Aquaculture• Bee Keeper• Feed mill• Forestry• Hoof Trimmer• Landscaping and lawn care• Pecans• Rodeo photography• Soil Research• Truck driver• Woodwork

Owner Operator 68%

No longer farming 9%

Employee 7%

Child 5%

Dependent adult 5%

Spouse/partner 4%

Seasonal/migrant 2%

Who is the client?

Client Status 03-04

4%

31%

66%

Re-opened case

On-going

New

Top 7 disabilities 03-04

Back injury 11%

Spinal paraplegic 8%

Joint injury 7%

Arthritis 7%

Orthopedic injury 6%

Other 6%

Multiple Sclerosis 5%

3 year trend in disability-decreases

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

Spinal paraplegia

Spinal quad

Lower Limb Amputation

Upper Limb Amputation

Stroke

Orthopedic Injury

year 1

year 2

year 3

percent

3 year trend in disability- increases

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

other

Back Injury

Joint Injury

Arthritis

MS

year 1

year 2

year 3

percent

What is this other category?When you look at the data, 42 entries were listed as other15 of these gave a description .• Chemical Imbalance• Congenital• Communication• Compression of spine• Cystic fibrosis• Educational/Learning 2• Genetic Birth Defect• Learning disability• Lymphedema• Ptsd• Substance abuse• Unidentified 2• Unknown

What caused disability?All cases, 2003-2004

61%24%

15%

chronic or health

catestrophic ag

catestrophic nonag

What ag things caused disability?

36%

35%

9%

4%

8%

8%

tractor/machinery

Other

Vehicle

chemicals

animal

fall

Repetitive motion and too many years farming

What non ag things caused disability?

14%

20%

66%

vehicle

fall

recreational

Gender and disability, 01-04

0 2 4 6 8 10

Spinal paraplegia

Spinal quad

Lower Amputation

Upper Amputation

Joint Injury

Back Injury

Stroke

Orthopedic Injury

other

Arthritis

MS

Women

Men

%

What demographic analyses would be most helpful to you?

What is most helpful to me?

Please report on this data!!!

Why?

•Because we need continued justification for the money that is funding us.

•Because I can provide you with presentations like this one for you to use with funding agencies and others

Outcomes

• I will work towards gathering and reporting outcomes

How should we do this?

• TBA