tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post5879112332096059356..comments2024-03-29T00:47:42.684-06:00Comments on Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church): LDS Membership by Mexican State: 2010 Mexican CensusMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030323360917985701noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-15498603844566552042011-08-21T12:58:42.739-06:002011-08-21T12:58:42.739-06:00Hi Matt,
I found a mistake when you compared the ...Hi Matt, <br />I found a mistake when you compared the number of self-identified Latter Day Saints in México, because the 2000 Census count only person 5 ages or older, but the number in the 2010 Census Count all ages, then the correct comparison numbers are this:<br />2000 205,229 self identified LDS<br />2010 289,064 self identified LDS<br />This is an increase of 83,853 members net 40.8% in 10 years.<br />Then the diference of 25,868 is in the rang from 0-4 years.Eduardo Sernahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18093456839781803003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-82299805111087477422011-08-20T18:26:16.073-06:002011-08-20T18:26:16.073-06:00It would be very interesting for the Church to do ...It would be very interesting for the Church to do a membership census, contacting everyone on the list and asking people what they felt their status was. However, it won't happen because writing people off violates the whole "lost sheep" principle.Brandon Plewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18179862016794010481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-48423583503281604292011-08-20T18:20:37.996-06:002011-08-20T18:20:37.996-06:00The big issue with this (and has been for 50 years...The big issue with this (and has been for 50 years) is who decides exactly who gets dropped and by what standard? My experience as an EQP in an inner city branch was that most of the people on the "really really inactive" list wouldn't talk to us, so we couldn't officially determine their willingness to stay on the list. Also, we were instructed *not* to suggest or encourage people to request their name being removed. Many felt they were no longer mormons, but didn't want to bother helping us clean up our records, they just wanted us to leave them alone.<br /><br />It's interesting to see how other churches handle this. JW's don't report baptized members, only ones who submit their witnessing reports. SDA's have some kind of timeout policy in which people who haven't been active for a certain period of time are automatically removed (or deactivated somehow and no longer included in totals).Brandon Plewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18179862016794010481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-1842268959917990452011-08-19T02:07:23.567-06:002011-08-19T02:07:23.567-06:00By the 2020 Mexican census, the gap between self-i...By the 2020 Mexican census, the gap between self-identified members and official church totals in Mexico will be well over 1 million members. You can bet that another round of articles by sociologists and demographers touting the continued inflation of church statistics in 2010 censuses is on the way. We need to seriously rethink how we report our membership. By my calculations, people who no longer consider themself LDS but who are counted as members in Mexico constitute more than 1 out of every 20 church members worldwide.Rick Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554914709716569697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-85422840902436321592011-08-17T12:17:13.563-06:002011-08-17T12:17:13.563-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Matthew Crandallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07533736011732141779noreply@blogger.com