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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience with three agencies over 10 years, the LCCs are pretty open about these numbers with HFs and APs.  They will absolutely give you rough numbers from their experience and will also tell you which nationalities have the higher rates of AP-initiated rematch and HF-initiated rematch and also which nationalities tend to have the highest rates of driving-related rematches.

If you are a legitimate HP, you should just ask your LCC or AD.[/quote]

Yup.

I'm in Ashburn and our LCC said that every single Asian AP she has had has gone into rematch foe driving.

She has 35 families and said that she deals with approx 3 rematch a year.[/quote]

Yup, when you "just ask" they can just tell you anything they want.

When these au pair businesses are legally required to disclose their stats (national and local) on their website, they can't "just tell" you anything they want.

There's a good reason these numbers are kept secret......

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I don't think you understand statistics, PP. So what if every agency published their statistics for the percentages of au pairs that go into rematch or return home in a year. What do you think that tells you about the agency? Not a lot, really. Why? Because there are several possible reasons au pairs go into rematch that have little or absolutely nothing to do with the agency. So, these percentages can't really tell you how successful an agency is. In fact, it's about as useful as a percentage of overall matches.

If you want to know how successful an agency is, you need a lot more information than this, and contrary to your earlier post, "everybody" does not have the "right' to this information.[/quote]
Rematch stats have *everything* to do with your agency, as the agency PICKS both the au pairs AND the employers. No one is looking for zero rematches, but the more you have, the worse it looks. :) That is clear.[/quote]

They may pick the au pairs and HFs, but they do not MATCH them. So, unless you know *why* every rematch occurred, you can't extrapolate on the "success" or quality of an agency simply from the number of rematches. So, no, what you think is clear isn't, if you know the first thing about statistical analysis.[/quote]
Those with lower rematches would be preferable to those with higher rematch rates.

So simple. :) 
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I don't think this is the case.  I'm thinking about our AP's friend who wasn't happy with her family.  It just wasn't a great fit.  If our LCC had told her to stick with teh family, that she was unlikely to otherwise find a family and therefore would have been sent home, and that she was over-reacting because nothing is perfect ever, it's very likely she would have stayed with the family, because we live in a great town, she had access to good transportation (not a car but good trains), and she had a lot of friends.  But, because our LCC told her she was an excellent candidate, that with six months left she would likely find another family, and that the LCC would herself support the AP and try to find her a new family, she ended up in rematch.  Let's say that the LCC brings the same thoughtful, caring approach to working with, I don't know, say 5 of her other APs this year.  So out of her 40 APs, 6 go to rematch when maybe they could have stayed if she had pressured them to, and 4 go to rematch because that is the only option (family insists, etc).  So now LCC has a 1/4 rematch rate.  She could have had a 1/10 rematch rate, but the 6 APs who would have stuck it out would not have had as great a year.  Is this really a preferable thing?  I think you're trying to reduce a complicated situation to a basic formula, and that is really simplistic and reductive and won't get you the info you really want.[/quote]

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