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