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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_statistics/VWFYMFdf">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Culture_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints/gssUshsk">Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cunningham, Perry H. (1992), "Activity in the Church", in Ludlow, Daniel H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 13–15, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140 <a href="0-02-879602-0" target="_blank">0-02-879602-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Stack, Peggy Fletcher (23 September 2011). "Active, inactive – do Mormon labels work or wound?". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2013-09-20. <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Fletcher_Stack" target="_blank">/wiki/Peggy_Fletcher_Stack</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Member activity rates are estimated from missionary reports, seminary and institute enrollment, and ratio of members per congregation - ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com/ <a href="/wiki/Church_Educational_System#Seminaries" target="_blank">/wiki/Church_Educational_System#Seminaries</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Stack, Peggy Fletcher (January 17, 2014). "New almanac offers look at the world of Mormon membership". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2015-04-20. <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/57369318-80/church-lds-percent-growth.html.csp" target="_blank">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/57369318-80/church-lds-percent-growth.html.csp</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>An "unverified" worldwide LDS activity statistic of 36% was briefly published in 2014 on the Deseret News website. See: "LDS DEMOGRAPHICS PUBLISHED, THEN SCRUBBED BY DESERET NEWS". Mormon News, October 13–17. Signature Books. October 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-04-20. <a href="https://archive.today/20150420215900/http://signaturebooks.com/2014/10/mormon-news-october-13-17/" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20150420215900/http://signaturebooks.com/2014/10/mormon-news-october-13-17/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Albrecht, Stan L. (1998), "The Consequential Dimension of Mormon Religiosity", in Duke, James T. (ed.), Latter-day Saint Social Life: Social Research on the LDS Church and its Members, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, pp. 253–292, ISBN 1-57008-396-7, OCLC 38962731, archived from the original on 2011-10-06, retrieved 2011-08-09 <a href="1-57008-396-7" target="_blank">1-57008-396-7</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Riess, Jana (October 5, 2016), "Worldwide, only 25 percent of young single Mormons are active in the LDS Church", Religion News Service <a href="http://religionnews.com/2016/10/05/leaked-worldwide-only-25-of-young-single-mormons-are-active-in-the-lds-church/" target="_blank">http://religionnews.com/2016/10/05/leaked-worldwide-only-25-of-young-single-mormons-are-active-in-the-lds-church/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Bushman, Richard Lyman (2008), Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 55, ISBN 978-0-19-531030-6 <a href="978-0-19-531030-6" target="_blank">978-0-19-531030-6</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Albrecht, Stan L. (1998), "The Consequential Dimension of Mormon Religiosity", in Duke, James T. (ed.), Latter-day Saint Social Life: Social Research on the LDS Church and its Members, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, pp. 253–292, ISBN 1-57008-396-7, OCLC 38962731, archived from the original on 2011-10-06, retrieved 2011-08-09 <a href="1-57008-396-7" target="_blank">1-57008-396-7</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Riess, Jana (2019). The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church. Oxford University Press. p. 46. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>