Environmental Education Public Contact Counts Since 2014

Annual counts detail youth, students, teachers, volunteers, and general public participants in New York State environmental education programs, site visits, and staff interactions. The dataset is published by the State of New York and covers records beginning in the year 2014. It tracks total annual contacts for each participant group across various program locations.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in youth participation versus volunteer engagement over time using annual counts per group.
• Compare total annual contacts across different program locations to identify high-engagement sites.
• Model the relationship between teacher and student participant numbers to assess program targeting effectiveness.
• Evaluate year-over-year growth in general public contacts to measure outreach campaign success.

Strengths

• Data provides annual counts for five distinct participant groups (youth, students, teachers, volunteers, general public).
• Time series begins in 2014, offering a multi-year perspective on program engagement.

Limitations

• The total number of records (rows) and specific program locations (columns) are unknown, limiting assessment of scope.
• Data granularity is annual totals, preventing analysis of seasonal trends or specific event impacts.
• The absence of demographic details within participant groups restricts deeper equity analysis.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Collection Method

Aggregated counts from DEC staff reports of program participation, site visits, and public contacts.

Time Range

Beginning 2014

Freshness

Updated as of April 2026.

Geography

State of New York