Parish Statistics Explained

Category

Requirements

Households

To be defined as a household, a record must meet these requirements:

• The family has a record in the database of the organization you are working in.

• The family record was not deleted (the value in the Date Closed field is NULL).

Date Closed is a field in a database table. When the user deletes a member or a family, the system enters the date of the deletion in this field.  

Additional Requirements and Criteria for Households

Registered

A record is counted as Registered if the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households.

• The Registration Status field in the family's record is set to 1 (the Registration Status checkbox is selected in Family Details).

Unregistered

A record is counted as Unregistered if the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households.

• The Registration Status field in the family's record is set to 0 (the Registration Status checkbox is not selected in Family Details).

Not Specified

A record is counted as Not Specified if the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households.

• The Registration Status field in the family's record is set to NULL.

Total Households

A total count of the households in these categories:

• Registered

• Unregistered

• Not Specified

Households without children

To be defined as a household without children, a record must meet these requirements:

• The family has a record (regardless of registration status) in your organization's database.

• The member is alive (the Status field in Member Details is not set to Deceased).

• The member was not deleted from the database (the value in the Date Closed field is NULL).

Date Closed is a field in a database table. When the user deletes a member or a family, the system enters the date of the deletion in this field.

Additional Requirements and Criteria for Households Without Children

Single

A record is counted in the Single household category if all of the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households without children. 

• The family record contains only one member.

• The member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family contains no children. In other words, no member in the family has a role set to any of the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

Catholic Couples

A record is counted in the Catholic Couples category if all of the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households without children.

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Male and whose role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Female and whose role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains no child members. In other words, no member in the family has a role set to any of the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

• All family members are Catholic (the Religion field in each individual's Member Details record is set to Catholic).

Interfaith Couples

A record is counted in the Interfaith Couples category if all of the following are true:

• It meets the requirements for Households without children. 

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Male.

• The male member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Female.

• The female member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains no child members. In other words, no member in the family has a role set to any of the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

• At least one family member is not Catholic (the Religion field in at least one individual's Member Details record is set to a religion other than Catholic).

Members

An individual is counted in the Members category if all of the following are true:

• The member has a record in your organization’s database.

• The member is alive (the Status field in Member Details is not set to Deceased).

• The member was not deleted from the database (the value in the Date Closed field is NULL).

Date Closed is a field in a database table. When the user deletes a member or a family, the system enters the date of the deletion in this field.

Additional Requirements and Criteria for Persons

Children (0 - 17)

To count as person in the Children (0 – 17) category, the person’s age must be between 0 and 17 years.

Boys

A boy is defined as follows:

• A member who is a child.

• A member whose gender is set to Male.

• A member whose role is set to one of the following:

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Son

• Stepchild

Girls

A girl is defined as follows:

• A member who is a child.

• A member whose gender is set to Female.

• A member whose role is set to one of the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Step Daughter

• Stepchild

Not Specified

To count as a person in the Not Specified category, the person must be:

A member who is a child.

A member whose gender is set to Unknown.

Total Children

A total count of children in the following categories:

• Boys

• Girls

• Not Specified

Total Souls

Male

A male is defined as follows: a member whose gender is set to Male.  

Female

A female is defined as follows: a member whose gender is set to Female.

Not Specified

This category counts members whose gender is set to Unknown.

Total Souls

A total count of the individuals in these categories:

• Male

• Female

• Not Specified

Households with children

A record is included in this category if all of the following are true:

·    The family has a record (regardless of registration status) in your database.

·    The member is alive (the Status field in Member Details is not set to Deceased).

·    The member was not deleted from the database (the value in the Date Closed field is NULL).

Date Closed is a field in a database table. When the user deletes a member or a family, the system enters the date of the deletion in this field.

Additional Requirements and Criteria for Households With Children

Single

A record is counted in the Single category if it meets the requirements for Households with children plus the following are true: 

• The family record contains only one member.

• The member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family has children. In other words, the family contains at least one member whose role is set to the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

Catholic Couples

A record is counted in the Catholic Couples category if it meets the requirements for Households with children plus the following are true: 

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Male.

• The male member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Female.

• The female member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family has children. In other words, the family contains at least one member whose role is set to the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

• All family members identify their religion as Catholic (the Religion field in each individual’s Member Details record is set to Catholic).

Interfaith Couples

A record is counted in the Interfaith Couples category if it meets the requirements for Households with children plus the following are true: 

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Male.

• The male member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family record contains a member whose gender is set to Female.

• The female member’s role is set to one of the following: Head, Husband, or Wife.

• The family has children. In other words, the family contains at least one member whose role is set to the following:

• Daughter

• Foster Daughter

• Foster Son

• Grandchild

• Granddaughter

• Grandson

• Son

• Step Daughter

• Step Son

• Stepchild

• The family contains at least one family whose religion is not Catholic (the Religion field in at least one individual’s Member Details record is set to a religion other than Catholic or the religion is not defined (NULL).