tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post8656903225089288766..comments2024-03-29T13:30:56.758+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Better than one might supposePeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-17716163452622267432010-11-16T05:49:09.143+13:002010-11-16T05:49:09.143+13:00Hi Kurt,
We do not publish our stats because we do...Hi Kurt,<br />We do not publish our stats because we do not count them comprehensively across the three tikanga of our church.<br /><br />Pakeha dioceses have a strong tradition of annually publishing the attendance stats for their parishes and schools, but these are not collected in tabulated form for the seven dioceses as one tikanga.<br /><br />Every five years we have a census and this gives a determination of people who consider themselves Anglican (and because there is cultural and format-of-the-form encouragement to declare being of no faith etc, I think our 'census Anglican' figure is a reasonable equivalent to 'membership' ... its around 500,000).<br /><br />My guesstimate of weekly attendance is 35,000 - 40,000. Quite a bit lower than TEC's ASA!<br /><br />A final note: I do not think any Anglican thinking about these things here would presume that if the stats were collected well, we would find a steady increase in ASA through these years. Probably a modest decline year to year ...Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-83985700744430662182010-11-16T02:57:50.933+13:002010-11-16T02:57:50.933+13:00Where are the stats for the New Zealand Church, Pe...Where are the stats for the New Zealand Church, Peter? Do you have any idea of what they are?<br /><br />Kurt Hill<br />Enjoying the colorful fall foliage<br />In Brooklyn, NYKurtnoreply@blogger.com