ldsgrowth {TeachingDemos}

Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Description

Data on the Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon church (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist)).

Usage

data(ldsgrowth)

Format

A data frame with 179 observations on the following 6 variables.

Year

Year from 1830 to 2008

Members

Total number of Members

Wards

Number of Wards and Branches (individual congregations)

Stakes

Number of Stakes (a group of wards/branches)

Missions

Number of Missions

Missionaries

Number of Missionaries called

Details

The data comes from the church records and are as of December 31st of each year.

The church was officially organized on 6 April 1830 (hence the starting year of 1830).

The Missionaries column represents the number of missionaries called each year. Missionaries generally serve for about 2 years.

Source

Deseret News 2010 Church News Almanac

Examples

data(ldsgrowth)
with(ldsgrowth, plot(Year, log(Members)))