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Page: Enrollment & Fees Survey - Sept 2003
1. What is the religious affiliation of your camp?
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Percent		Response
Count
Catholic
3.1%3
Jewish
13.3%13
Protestant
74.5%73
Other (please specify)
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9.2%9

2. What is your role at camp?
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Percent		Response
Count
Owner
4.1%4
Board Member
6.1%6
Executive Director
38.8%38
Camp Director
28.6%28
Assistant Camp Director
9.2%9
Program Director (responsible for one or more areas of specialized camp activity-adventure program director, environmental education director, etc.
6.1%6
Other (please specify)
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7.1%7

3. Which best describes your camp/conference center?
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Percent		Response
Count
Privately owned for profit
2.1%2
Not-for profit owned by one or more congregations
45.4%44
Independent not-for-profit
10.3%10
Not-for-profit owned by a faith based religious organization (i.e. UAHC,CYO,YMCA)
34.0%33
Other (please specify)
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7.2%7

4. We recognize that you may oversee several camp facilities. However, in an effort to manage complexity we are asking that you have one site/facility in mind as you respond to this survey. You may operate several types of programs listed below at that one site. Describe the camp/conference center you are referring to in this survey? Choose all that apply.
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Percent		Response
Count
We operate a summer day camp
25.0%24
We operate a summer resident camp
87.5%84
We rent our facility to camps without providing program activities
56.3%54
We rent our facility to groups and we provide program to these groups when requested
61.5%59
We provide open-enrollment programs (not including summer camp) where we control the program content (e.g. mother/daughter weekend in October)
44.8%43
Other (please specify)
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5.2%5

5. In which state (or Washington D. C.) is your camp/conference center located?
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Percent		Response
Count
AL 0.0%0
AK 0.0%0
AZ 0.0%0
AR 0.0%0
CA
3.2%3
CO 0.0%0
CT
1.1%1
DE 0.0%0
FL
3.2%3
GA
2.1%2
HI 0.0%0
ID
1.1%1
IL
3.2%3
IN
6.3%6
IA
1.1%1
KS
2.1%2
KY
1.1%1
LA 0.0%0
ME
1.1%1
MD 0.0%0
MA
1.1%1
MI
5.3%5
MN
3.2%3
MS
2.1%2
MO
2.1%2
MT
1.1%1
NE
1.1%1
NV 0.0%0
NH
4.2%4
NJ
5.3%5
NM 0.0%0
NY
7.4%7
NC
4.2%4
ND 0.0%0
OH
5.3%5
OK
1.1%1
OR
4.2%4
PA
9.5%9
RI
1.1%1
SC 0.0%0
SD 0.0%0
TN 0.0%0
TX
4.2%4
UT 0.0%0
VT 0.0%0
VA
4.2%4
WA
4.2%4
WV 0.0%0
WI
4.2%4
WY 0.0%0
DC 0.0%0

6. Is the camp you are referring to for this survey currently accredited by the American Camping Association?
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Percent		Response
Count
Yes
78.1%75
No
20.8%20

7. By what percentage did your 2003 SUMMER YOUTH-CAMP enrollment change in comparison to your 2002 enrollments?
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Percent		Response
Count
decreased
45.4%44
stayed the same
25.8%25
increased 1-2%
7.2%7
increased 3-4%
5.2%5
increased 5-8%
6.2%6
increased 9-10%
1.0%1
increased > 10%
5.2%5
we don't operate a summer youth camp
3.1%3

8. How quickly or slowly did your 2003 summer youth-camp enrollment process go?
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Percent		Response
Count
More quickly than usual (Go to question 9)
16.0%15
About the same as usual
53.2%50
More slowly than usual (Go to question 10)
29.8%28

9. If your enrollment came in more slowly than it has been in other years, to what do you attribute this change?
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Percent		Response
Count
Our marketing was late
6.3%2
Our marketing coincided with the beginning of the war, and it was poor timing
9.4%3
People told us they were more conservative with their money
37.5%12
We had a low return rate and had to recruit more new families than in past years
9.4%3
Other (please specify)
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25.0%8

10. If your enrollment came in more quickly than usual, to what do you attribute this change?
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Percent		Response
Count
We had better marketing materials
18.2%4
We lowered our fees or used other new incentives 0.0%0
We had a strong season in 2002 that led to early re-enrollment
45.5%10
We reached out to a new market
4.5%1
Other (please specify)
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18.2%4

11. Is your camper population, when compared to five year ago, getting:
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Percent		Response
Count
Younger?
13.0%12
Older?
16.3%15
Staying about the same?
69.6%64

12. Have your marketing and CAMPER recruitment efforts changed when compared to what you did five years ago?
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 We now do less of thisWe now do more of thisWe do about the sameWe don't do this at allRating
Count
Direct mail15.2% (14)27.2% (25)52.2% (48)5.4% (5)92
Newspaper/magazine advertising23.1% (21)13.2% (12)25.3% (23)38.5% (35)91
Recruitment through our churches/synagogues3.4% (3)47.2% (42)44.9% (40)4.5% (4)89
Use of Web site to recruit0.0% (0)83.9% (78)7.5% (7)8.6% (8)93
Neighborhood meetings/In-home recruitment4.3% (4)10.9% (10)18.5% (17)66.3% (61)92
Tuition discounts to those who bring new campers3.2% (3)17.2% (16)16.1% (15)63.4% (59)93
Use of referral services1.1% (1)5.5% (5)25.3% (23)68.1% (62)91

13. Which of these is your BEST source for new camper contacts? Select only one.
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Percent		Response
Count
Direct mail
9.9%9
Newspaper/magazine advertising
2.2%2
Recruitment through our churches/synagogues
62.6%57
Use of Web site to recruit
13.2%12
Neighborhood meetings/In-home recruitment
6.6%6
Tuition discounts to those who bring new campers
1.1%1
Use of referral services
3.3%3

14. What do you anticipate you will do with the price of camper fees for next summer?
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Percent		Response
Count
Keep them about the same
24.2%23
Lower them (Skip to question 16) 0.0%0
Raise them (Go to question 15)
74.7%71

15. How much do you anticipate raising camper fees for next summer?
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Percent		Response
Count
No change in fees for next year
19.8%18
By the cost of living
6.6%6
1-3%
31.9%29
4-5%
24.2%22
6-10%
13.2%12
More than 10%
2.2%2

16. If you rent your facilities to outside groups for retreats, conferences, workshops, picnics, outdoor education, or the like, by what percentage have your enrollments changed compared to a year ago?
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Percent		Response
Count
decreased
19.4%18
stayed about the same
29.0%27
increased 1-2%
11.8%11
increased 3-4%
6.5%6
increased 5-8%
10.8%10
increased 9-10%
3.2%3
increased >10%
7.5%7
we don't rent out our facilities
9.7%9

17. As you consider fees for rental groups, ON AVERAGE what do you expect to happen to those fees in the coming year?
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Percent		Response
Count
We are not increasing fees
31.2%29
We are decreasing our rental fees (Go to question 18) 0.0%0
We are increasing our rental fees (Go to question 19)
51.6%48
We are not increasing rental fees, we are increasing program option fees
3.2%3
We are increasing both program option and rental fees
3.2%3
We don't rent to groups
9.7%9

18. If you are decreasing your group rental fees, by how much?
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Percent		Response
Count
We are not decreasing our fees
89.3%25
1-3% 0.0%0
4-5% 0.0%0
6-10% 0.0%0
>10% 0.0%0

19. If you are increasing your group rental fees, by how much?
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Percent		Response
Count
We are not increasing our fees
23.5%16
1-3%
32.4%22
4-5%
33.8%23
6-10%
4.4%3
>10%
2.9%2
By charging for services that were formerly included in our fee 0.0%0

20. Which of the following characterizes your camp's Web site presence?
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 Yes, we do thisNo, we don't do thisWe plan to start doing this in the next 12 monthsRating
Count
We have a camp Web site94.7% (90)1.1% (1)4.2% (4)95
Campers/Families can register right on the campsite (we can accept credit cards on line)19.8% (19)59.4% (57)22.9% (22)96
Campers/Families can download registration and/or health forms and fill them out and mail or fax them to us79.2% (76)13.5% (13)7.3% (7)96
We post camp pictures on the Web site regularly during each session54.2% (52)35.4% (34)11.5% (11)96

21. Which of the following characterizes your handling of camper e-mail?
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 YesNoRating
Count
We encourage parents to send e-mail to their children at camp60.9% (56)39.1% (36)92
We print out e-mails and deliver them each day to campers76.1% (70)23.9% (22)92
We charge campers/parents to deliver e-mails23.1% (21)76.9% (70)91
We provide camper access to computers to read e-mails2.2% (2)97.8% (91)93
We provide camper access to send e-mails4.3% (4)95.7% (89)93
We have e-mail capability on site for camp business95.6% (87)6.6% (6)91

22. Our Internet connection at camp is:
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Percent		Response
Count
56K or slower (dial-up/modem)
56.4%53
128K or faster (e.g. cable, SDL, satellite)
38.3%36
No Internet connection at camp
4.3%4
Smoke signals 0.0%0

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