ABSTRACT
Measuring the effectiveness of recreation services is not completely new to most local governments, but also current procedures have major deficiencies. The objectives, measures, and data collection procedures [here] focus on recreation opportunities for individual citizens. A basic objective for recreation services, one that seems common to most communities, is: To provide for all citizens a variety of enjoyable leisure opportunities that are accessible, safe, physically attractive, and uncrowded. Most of the procedures can be used to assess recreation effectiveness in major geographic areas of the community. Eight factors seem particularly important to recreation decisions: age, sex, area of residence, income, race, education, existence of handicap, and ownership of or access to an automobile. A major need in measuring the effectiveness of recreation services is to obtain reliable indicators of community satisfaction with available public recreation services.
