JWINprotest: I think the answer is clear: there should not be a negative number.
Statistics of Denmark
by Dondee 29 Replies latest jw friends
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JWinprotest
Good point. I remember seeing negatives in that column when I was a kid, but they were rare back then and they would get buried somehow. I guess now there would be way too many to ignore.
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Gayle
Since avg. pubs for 2009 was 14,153, now 2010 avg was 14,085, then the decrease would be .48%, so they "round down." If it was .50%, they would have to round up to 1%. So if there were 3 more pubs. inactive, it would have hit the 1% decrease.
(This is if they go by "Avg," versus "Peak")
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JWinprotest
That makes sense, thanks Gayle.
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factfinder
@JWinprotest- actually there is no 0% shown in the report. It is blank in that column. I just included the 0% in my post- it is not in the YB. They do not list any 0%s anymore. Sorry for any confusion.
@MadSweeny- Yes there was a decrease but that baptism figure of 183 is already included in the peak publishers figure. Those ones were publishers- they got baptized this past year but were already publishers. To see how many became inactive subtract this years average from last years.
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steve2
For decades, JWs in Denmark have experienced flattened "growth" and even overt decline. Baptisms continue but the number of average and peak publishers remains stuck.
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Gayle
factfinder,,you have a PM
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factfinder
gayle- you have a pm !
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Dondee
Bohm you got a PM :)
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Dondee
In fact Jehovah's Witnesses have experienced a decrease of almost 14 percent over the past 20 years. This is Goods blessings to Denmark