by 88JM 62 Replies latest jw friends
What happened to the missing 1.7 million?
What Phizzy said, plus "publishers" is different than "baptized". Lots of folks (particularly JW kids) are "publishers" and thus counted in the numbers, but never get baptized, or get baptized many years out into the future.
That said, it is pretty apparent that several hundred thousand have become DF'ed or inactive in the past decade or 2.
Hey folks - just noticing this got bumped - did I miss something happening? Was there a reason?
I can't remember if I uploaded a new version with the 2014 data, but I did do the spreadsheet for that too so I'll get that up when I'm back from work today.
Thanks to wifibandit (and Atlantis) for the reminder:
Now that Yearbooks 1927-2014 in PDF (Thanks Atlantis!) are available for download via bittorrent, Can we organize a way to include ALL data?
As I might have tried to explain before, the difficulty is not so much getting the data into a spreadsheet, but it's the wonderful world of international politics and countries changing names and borders that takes time to work out.
Things have been pretty stable for the past 15 years or so, but working back to 1988 things start getting really complicated in the 80's, especially with the Soviet Union in Europe. It can certainly be done, but it just takes time and patience. If someone else wants to have a go, then by all means go ahead.
Maybe I'm just going about it the wrong way and making a mess of it - but I just think if you want actual useful data for individual countries going back as far as possible then you need to work out the country changes. You could ignore them and just dump everything into a messy spreadsheet, but then for some countries (like Russia etc.) you would only have data going back as far as those countries existed in name.
Thanks steve2 - I'm glad someone understands.
Here's the updated version with the latest 2014 data anyway:
Yearbook Stats 1988 - 2014:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_bzL2A4XRiobElEbmhhSW51Z0U/view?usp=sharing
Yearbook Stats by Field 1988- 2014:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_bzL2A4XRioQUh2eVRLOGlJTk0/view?usp=sharing
It looks like it's better to just download them and view/edit in Excel/OpenOffice rather than trying to view in Google Spreadsheets as it has trouble viewing them for some reason - maybe because there's quite a lot of data and formulas.
Thank you for this work.
Here is a link to an archive of Yearbooks 1927- Present (I will continue to update)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2fYNzAbUpqFb0VMdHA5RGNWYUk&authuser=0
Hi folks - sorry to bump an old thread but I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten about this project.
I've been working on this a bit more and I can now say that I have collated 35 years of yearbook statistics, including the latest figures from 2015 in the current yearbook.
The spreadsheets now cover from 1981 to 2015. Also thanks those of you who spotted existing errors and notified me - your corrections should be included. Please feel free to message me if you spot any more, particularly in the years now added for 1981 through to 1987.
Download links to the Excel files are below. If you're unsure what the files are or why there are two, please see the first post in this thread.
As for the future of this project, I know many would like to see data going back to 1974/1975. That is still my original goal, though it was always clear that would take considerable time and effort, which has proven to be the case. For now, I need a bit of a break but I hope to pick this up again some time.
Good work my man!
Much appreciated 88JM, thank you.
