{"id":953,"date":"2013-09-20T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:54:56","slug":"rural-toastmasters-clubs-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/rural-toastmasters-clubs-disadvantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Are rural Toastmasters clubs at a disadvantage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cow\"<\/a>It’s an often repeated claim that rural Toastmasters clubs have trouble getting members and growing and thriving.\u00a0 Is it true?\u00a0 I put the question to the test, using U.S. clubs, 2012-13 DCP performance, their meeting place ZIP codes, and U.S. census data.<\/p>\n

First, I grouped U.S. clubs into four buckets based on the population of the ZIP code that they meet in.\u00a0 This gave me some reasonably equal-sized categories to look at.\u00a0 Then I looked at club size and Distinguished Club Program (DCP) performance in each of those categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Size<\/th>\nPop in ZIP<\/th>\n# clubs<\/th>\nActive mem<\/th>\n% disting<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Rural<\/td>\n<10,000 people<\/td>\n1,265<\/td>\n18.7<\/td>\n43.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Town<\/td>\n10-20,000 people<\/td>\n1,623<\/td>\n18.3<\/td>\n44.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
City<\/td>\n20-40,000 people<\/td>\n3,493<\/td>\n18.7<\/td>\n49.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Big City<\/td>\n>40,000 people<\/td>\n1,459<\/td>\n19.2<\/td>\n51.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Clubs in big cities do tend to be a little larger, a half member more, and are somewhat more likely to be distinguished.<\/p>\n

(Sorry, mapping clubs to postal codes and census data tracts is more difficult or even impossible in other countries, I have no data available for them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an often repeated claim that rural Toastmasters clubs have trouble getting members and growing and thriving.\u00a0 Is it true?\u00a0 I put the question to the test, using U.S. clubs, 2012-13 DCP performance, their meeting place ZIP codes, and U.S. census data. First, I grouped U.S. clubs into four buckets based on the population of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-stuff","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}