[Ansteorra] Dissolutions..pop numbers..

Jean Paul de Sens jeanpauldesens at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 22:26:36 PST 2008


Since we're just taking numbers for fun, lets take another look.  The
Western region had it's high watermark for membeship in January of 2005 with
166 members.  The high water mark for Southern was in 511 in 2005, and the
current is 383.  That does indeed appear to be a drastic drop.  However,
it's misleading as the Southern region really did not lose as many members
as it appears.  From 5/1/06 to 5/1/07 the 60 members of Middleford were
moved into Crown Lands, and no longer counted in the Southern Region total.
The actual membership lost is more likely from 511 to to around 443 or so
(and there are probably perhaps even more), so the total southern loss was
around 68 members.  In the same period, the Western Region loss 60 members.
Similar numbers, but  percentagewise, drastic.  1 in 3 people in the Western
region let their membership lapse, and only 1 in 8 members of the Southern
region let theirs lapse.

It's a fairly significant difference.

JP

On Jan 10, 2008 7:10 PM, <ksullivan6 at cox.net> wrote:

>  One of the stated reasons for the dissolutions in the Western region was
> retention, so I went to look at the numbers for each region and the
> kingdom.here is what I found using the data I found on the seneschals web
> page.
> over the last year each region had a net loss of population
> Coastal lost .7% of their population
> Southern lost 15%
> Central lost 2.3%
> Western lost 16.3 %
> Northern lost 3.2%
> Kingdom overall lost 125 members 3.2% of this 125 Southern lost 73 members
> Western lost only 22.
> '07 v '05, 2 regions had a net gain while the other 3 had a net loss
> Coastal gained 6.6%
> Northern gained 4.6%
> Southern lost 16.2%
> Central lost 8%
> Western lost 15.6 %
> Kingdom lost 2.2%
>  Now as the Kingdom only counts subsribing members here are those numbers
> '07 v '06
> Central lost 3%
> Coastal lost 2%
> Northern gained 3%
> Southern lost 13.3%
> Western lost 14%
> '07 v '05
> Central gained 3.6%
> Coastal lost 12.5%
> Northern lost 2.7%
> Southern lost18.9%
> Western lost 22.1%
> Also by the Kingdom regulations for population minimum requirements
> as of 8/1/07 only 2 groups in the kingdom are below the minimum and
> neither of them are in the groups that are being sanctioned.
>  Over all it appears that most of the Kingdom has a problem with
> retention, and it appears by the numbers that Southern is in the same boat
> with Western, so why is Western being singled out?
> > There have been issues with recruitment, retention, reporting and
> acceptable
> > officer applicant pools for years. This has been the case from the local
> > level through the regional offices.
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> Alix
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