PIRP: Motor Vehicle Point & Insurance Reduction Program Participation

New York State data measures participation in the Point & Insurance Reduction Program (PIRP). The dataset allows researchers to count motorists who have completed the defensive driving course and analyze subsets by demographics, provider, and timing. Columns suggest the data likely contains counts of completions by year, month, county, age, gender, sponsor, and delivery method.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in program participation using Year and Course Completion Count
• Comparing the popularity of different course delivery methods using Delivery Method and Sponsor
• Evaluating demographic reach of the program using Age at Completion, Gender, and County of Mailing Address
• Assessing provider performance across regions using Sponsor and County of Mailing Address
• Monitoring monthly completion volumes for operational planning using Month and Course Completion Count

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov signals importance and official status
• The dataset is structured for granular analysis with columns for demographics, geography, and time
• Data is maintained by the State of New York, indicating an authoritative source

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, file size, and license are missing or unknown across all sources
• There is a conflict in the reported last updated date between platforms (May 2026 vs April 2026)
• The Data.gov source lacks column information, reducing completeness for that platform

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Freshness

Last updated date reported as 2026-05-03 on Socrata, but 2026-04-11 on Data.gov.

Geography

New York State, with detail by County of Mailing Address