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LDS Church Growth, Member Activity, and Convert Retention: Review and Analysis
By David Stewart
Chapter I-01:
Introduction
Chapter I-02:
Who is a Church Member?
Chapter I-03:
What is Activity?
Chapter I-04:
What is Growth?
Chapter I-05:
Self-identified Religious Affiliation
Chapter I-06:
Double Affiliation
Chapter I-07:
Address Unknown File
Chapter I-08:
Other Terms
Chapter II-01:
Sources of Data: Official Church Statistics
Chapter II-02:
Sources of Data: Congregational Growth
Chapter II-03:
Sources of Data: Dependent Research
Chapter II-04:
Sources of Data: Statements of Church Leaders
Chapter II-05:
Sources of Data: Sociologic Surveys
Chapter II-06:
Sources of Data: National Censuses
Chapter II-07:
Sources of Data: Comparative Data
Chapter II-08:
Sources of Data: Hybrid Research
Chapter III-01:
Levels of Evidence
Chapter III-02:
Assessing Data Quality
Chapter III-03:
Survey Methodology
Chapter III-04:
Response Rates
Chapter III-05:
Power and Confidence Interval
Chapter III-06:
Definitions and Endpoints
Chapter III-07:
Social Acceptability Bias and Limitations of Self-Reported Data
Chapter III-08:
The Unknown Denominator
Chapter III-09:
Outcome Reporting Bias
Chapter III-10:
Conflict of Interest
Chapter III-11:
Agenda and Bias
Chapter III-12:
Transparency
Chapter III-13:
Privacy and Confidentiality
Chapter III-14:
Geography, Member Differences, and Sampling
Chapter III-15:
Are Census Data Valid?
Chapter III-16:
Limitations of Data
Chapter III-17:
Correlating the Data
Chapter IV-01:
Overall Growth Trends
Chapter IV-02:
International Growth
Chapter IV-03:
Congregational Growth Trends
Chapter IV-04:
Natural Growth
Chapter IV-05:
Member-Missionary Participation
Chapter IV-06:
Member Activity and Convert Retention
Chapter IV-07:
United States and Canada
Chapter IV-08:
Latin America
Chapter IV-09:
Europe
Chapter IV-10:
Asia
Chapter IV-11:
Australia and New Zealand
Chapter IV-12:
Africa
Chapter IV-13:
Other Church Data
Chapter V-01:
Conclusions
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