National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics
Ziesler P and Meldrum B. National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics. 1904. National Park Service
The NPS Social Science Program is responsible for coordinating visitor use statistics reporting for units administered by the NPS. ‘Visitor Use Statistics’ refers to a formal set of statistics collected by the National Park Service that address how many people visit parks and how long they stay. Program staff work with parks to develop appropriate data collection procedures and provide quality control for visitor use data. Such coordination ensures that visitor use data are consistent and reliable throughout all units of the National Park System. Interest in NPS visitation data goes back over a century when the first data were collected in 1904. In that first year, six national parks reported a total of 140,954 visitors. Early methods of data collection were informal and documented such things as number of visitors, modes of transportation, and trip origins. Since then, visitor use counting and reporting requirements have been formalized into policy and estimation procedures are designed to take advantage of new technologies.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Ziesler, Pamela; Meldrum, Bret
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Abstract, Public Use Statistics, Statistical Abstract, Visitation, Visitation Statistics, Visitor Use, Visitor Use Statistics
- Subjects
- NPS.gov Subject Site: Social Science