Study that reports on fact that Chile and Mexican censuses show many fewer members than are on Church records.
- Type
- Academic / Technical Report
- Source
- David Clark Knowlton LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
David Clark Knowlton, "How Many Members are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38, no. 2 (2005): 53-78
- Scribe/Publisher
- Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
- People
- David Clark Knowlton
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
In 2000, Mexico's census reported 205,229 Mormons five years of age and older. (See Table l.)1 Yet for December 31, 1999, the LDS Church claimed 846, 931.
In the spring of 2003, Chile published the results of its 2002 census.(See Table 2.) For the last day of 2001, the Church claimed 520,202 mem-bers in Chile while the new census identified only 103,735 members agefifteen and older."*
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