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YW and YM Attendance Decline 2018

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lranderson
New Member
#1
Hello,

I'm on a high council and our stake president asked us to discuss reasons for a drop in attendance for our YM and YW. When we look at "Key Indicators" reports, it shows about a 20% drop in attendance mostly between Q2 and Q3 in 2018 (from 75% or so to about 55%). The YM have since come up a little, but YW is still in the 50% range. Almost all the individual wards in our stake follow the same basic graph. Is anyone aware of some sort of change in reporting that happened about then? The other indicators are basically level for the stake. Is there a way to tell if this is a bigger trend than just in our stake? It just seems to me like there is something bigger going on with the data.

Thank you for any help or ideas!
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#2
Where are you looking at the stats? Is it based on "stats at the time" or are you looking at the "current" history?

Some stats recalculate based on current membership records - not who was in the ward at the time. If inactive members were moved in this month, that will impact older stats. The idea is to see how your members are doing - not how the ward was doing.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.

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jdlessley
Community Moderators
#3
If it were for 2019 then I would consider the change to only two meetings per month versus the four meetings per month in which to take attendance. If the youth were only making it to church only once a month then they would be counted before the change. But after the change there is a 50% less chance those only attending once will be counted. But for 2018 I cannot come up with a possible affect that would have such a broad impact across your entire stake.
JD Lessley
Have you tried finding your answer on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org Help Center or Tech Wiki?
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#4
You might look into what may have happened in the school system. Something may have come up that created competition for their attention.
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chriswoodut
Member
#5
Did you have a change in callings that may mean the person counting is a different person? When I took over as a clerk, I realized the ward was reporting averages for the quarter and not the attendance in the last month of the quarter. So, for me to change to follow the guidelines meant previous numbers were higher.