{"id":18103,"date":"2011-12-15T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=18103"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:47:10","slug":"mormons-in-the-us-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/mormons-in-the-us-a-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormons in the US:  A New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read the study itself <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/files\/2011\/12\/Mormons2008.pdf\">here<\/a> or a summary of it in the DN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700207176\/New-study-confirms-many-LDS-stereotypes.html?pg=2\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What I thought was interesting:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;According to the survey, 3.2 million Americans identified themselves as members of the LDS Church in 2008. Official LDS Church statistics indicate that number was actually about 5.9 million.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;young men in the Mormon Culture Region are defecting at substantially higher rates than young women, creating a growing gender imbalance and a surplus of Mormon women. In Utah, self-identified Mormon women outnumber men by a ratio of 3 to 2.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;I thought it was interesting that the title of the DN article is &#8220;New study confirms many LDS stereotypes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;I know it is only in reference to how the Church counts members, but I smirked at the description of the church as &#8220;quite liberal.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;The differences between members in the &#8220;Mormon Culture Region&#8221; and outside of it are interesting, especially the changing sex ratio.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Peggy Fletcher Stack reports on some serious flaws in the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/blogsfaithblog\/53131580-180\/percent-utah-brown-error.html.csp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read the study itself here or a summary of it in the DN here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18113,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions\/18113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}