{"id":15036,"date":"2011-04-05T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15036"},"modified":"2011-04-05T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:55:53","slug":"the-implied-statistical-report-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/the-implied-statistical-report-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implied Statistical Report, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago my post The Implied Statistical Report, 2008<\/a>, looked at what can be learned from a detailed examination of the data the Church releases each April Conference. This conferences’ data includes an additional statistic not found in earlier reports, the number of Church Service Missionaries, which led me to look again at the statistics to see if I might find something else.<\/p>\n

The more that I look at this data, the more interesting information I find in examining what the statistics imply. A lot can be learned from comparing the changes in one statistic to another, and I’ve put together a lot of those comparisons in a spreadsheet on Google Docs<\/a>, the same one I referred to two years ago. That spreadsheet has been updated to include information reported since 1973, along with a number of new calculations that I’ve made based on the data. Those who are likewise interested in these statistics are welcome to look at it\u2014and anyone wishing to\u00a0 help maintain, update and improve both the data an the analysis can drop me a message (at Kent [at] timesandseasons [dot] org), and I’ll allow them access to modify the spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

So, here is what I found interesting this year:<\/p>\n