Counting Quakers

Bill Chadkirk reflects on the meaning behind statistics

by Bill Chadkirk 6th September 2013

The one-hundred-and-fifty-first Tabular Statement was published at Yearly Meeting 2013. It is a remarkable run of church statistics by anyone’s standards and, in spite of the Yearly Meeting minute authorising experimentation in gathering and presenting information about our membership, I fervently hope that historical comparability will be maintained.