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Mythbusting: What the regional data says

What information has Sport Hawkes Bay been collecting?

Sport Hawke's Bay began by collecting data about coaches – how many there were, if they were up-skilling, if they were continuing to coach, and perhaps most importantly if the numbers of coaches influenced the quality of performance in their code.  Sport Hawke's Bay wanted to discover the effect that coaches were having on different codes, and to use this information to support decisions about funding of coaches.

Colin Stone explains their approach: “Once we began this process, we moved to the next step, which was around measuring coach performance through its effect on participation at the junior level. Hence, we started out asking about the numbers of coaches etc, and then we began collecting data from RSOs about membership (affiliated and non-affiliated) in order to learn more about the effect these coaches had on their sports.”

Apart from building up a picture of participation across their district through RSO data, Sport Hawke's Bay also began to collect data from a range of other sources, such as:

  • Bringing together existing data about Sport Hawke's Bay programmes and activities in the region, using it to build a picture about the region overall, and putting it in a ‘report card’ format
  • Collecting data about use of facilities. For example, at the Wairoa Community Centre, a mid-sized wet and dry facility (which is managed by Sport Hawke's Bay), receipts show that that usage of the facility has doubled over a specific time period. In a community the size of Wairoa, this change in participation is significant
  • Collecting data from fitness centres in the district and tracking the growth expansion.

Colin Stone recognises that this process is not necessarily about collecting perfect survey data, but for Sport Hawke's Bay, it’s about building a picture of what trends are developing, and using the data to help clubs focus on key improvements and to help investors make difficult decisions about resources. 


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Updated | 07 Oct 2008.

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