Church Membership Software Research (part 1)

Thu, Jun 10, 2010

Church Software

This data set contains statistics by state for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, providing information on the number of churches and members. The denominations included represent an estimated 91 percent of U.S. membership totals officially submitted to the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.

This data set contains statistics by state for 133 Judeo-Christian church bodies, providing information on the number of churches and members. It is not known exactly what percent of total Judeo-Christian adherents this actually represents. When compared to the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches: 1990, this study accounts for 23% more communicant members.

The Statistics of Churches in the United States was part of the 11th Census, conducted in 1890 (the U.S. Census collected data on religion through the 1936 Census, though the 1890 Census was the first to count the number of members).

The United States Census of Religious Bodies is, as the name suggests, a census of religious organizations, not a census of individuals (the U.S. Census collected data on religious organizations through the 1936 census). This census provides measures of the number of members in various denominations, by geographic unit. This is the third of four complete surveys on the subject of religious membership undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of the Census (preceded by the 1906 and 1916 censuses and followed by the 1936 censuses).

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