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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  An old program I just found. I'll try to get the other pages uploaded. there were 982 baptized in this 1973 assembly. How things have changed
  
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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  There are still huge disparities between the grand total they give and the summation of the columns above. Just one example, the Memorial attendance:

  
  
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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  Are the banned countries included?

  
  

  Good question, The 'Other Countries' are supposedly included in the Grand Total, but it doesn't correct the summation error when you exclude the other countries.

  It's really screwy. For instance the 2014 memorial attendance Grand Total is 19,950,019, but when you add the column it comes to 20,000,549. The figure in the 'Other countries' is 67,963. So even if they excluded the other countries from the published grand total, the number still is not correct. This is the case for every column.

  I'm beginning to understand why the WT is in such financial difficulties if their math people are so inept.
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  Column totals do not add up in WT's stats

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

  toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The WT yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2fYNzAbUpqFb0VMdHA5RGNWYUk

  Toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats. I wasn't aware of it until yesterday. Expecially interesting is the one called 'Yearbook Stats by Field' which makes it easy to compare across years.

  A few observations about the 2015 figures, when added to the file (the file only goes back to 1988, so my comments below reflect that limitation):

  The ratio of peak publishers / ave publishers is the lowest from 1988 to 2015

  Number of baptized is lowest since 2005.

  Increase in Peak publishers is lowest from 1988 to 2015

  Increase in Ave Publishers is second lowest from 1988 to 2015

  Number Baptized as a percent of publishers is lowest from 1988 to 2015 <edited to add

  Interesting, but the question I have is, Why don't the columns add up to the published Grand Totals? It's not just one or two, but none of the columns are summed correctly. For instance, the 2014 total of baptisms Grand total is given as 275,581 but adding all the countries separately gives 276,122.

  It is apparent that the published Grand Totals are excluding something but it is not specified.

  Maybe their using that 1914 math again.
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  Yearbook 2016: Annual Report (15177 Partakers)

  by Designer Stubble in

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  the 2016 yearbook is up on jw.orgbranches of jehovahs witnesses: 89 (was 90)number of lands reporting: 240 (was 239)total congregations: 118016 (was 115416)worldwide memorial attendance: 19,862,763 (was 19,950,019) decreasememorial partakers worldwide: 15,177 (was 14,121 in 2013:13,204) large increasepeak of publishers in kingdom service: 8,220,105 (was 8,201,205) minor increaseaverage publishers preaching each month: 7,987,279 (was 7,867,958)percentage of increase over 2014: 1.5 (was 2.2)total number baptized: 260,273 (was 275,581)average auxiliary pioneer publishers each month: 443,504 (was 635,298) huge decreaseaverage pioneer publishers each month: 1,135,210 (was 1,089,446)total hours spent in field: 1,933,473,727 (was 1,945,487,604) decreaseaverage home bible studies each month: 9,708,968 (was 9,499,933)

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  Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 89 (was 90)

  Do we know which Branch closed?

  (I am assuming just one closed and no new ones were opened)
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  If a year is really 365 1/4 days why 360 days to calculate 1914

  by blondie in

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  doesn't that throw off the date?.

  *** w51 6/15 p. 383 questions from readers ***.

  in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.

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  Looking at TD's post about Goudoever, I wonder, who was Goudoever and when was the book written? I don't remember seeing his name before.

  I'm pretty sure I've seen the 360 figure in Adventist literature from the 1800's. Or maybe it was in Froome's SDA reference book.
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  2016 Yearbook service report stats - Excel spreadsheet download available

  by Westenddave in

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  2. beliefs

  hello,.

  i've posted the 2016 yearbook service report in excel format for public download.

  here's the link: http://www.filedropper.com/2016yearbookofjwinexcelformat.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Overall the report shows stagnation. There are still plenty of people enthusiastically making the WT their life's work that it will be around for a long while yet, but many are just finding it boring. When a country gets to the point where there are nearly as many ex-witnesses as current witnesses, the growth stops. That would be an interesting figure to have, it if were possible to get.
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  2016 Yearbook service report stats - Excel spreadsheet download available

  by Westenddave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello,.

  i've posted the 2016 yearbook service report in excel format for public download.

  here's the link: http://www.filedropper.com/2016yearbookofjwinexcelformat.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  As someone mentioned on another post, Ukraine's negative is nearly offset by Russia's positive. I wasn't aware of it, but there has been some restructuring of boundaries apparently.

  Also, I am a little surprised to see large decreases in some of the poorest African nations like Malawi, Congo, and Congo DR, while most of the other African nations have relatively large increases.