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work_xtlpctdlpreynonngowxc7mloq	Rachel Bacon	Merging the Religious Congregations and Membership Studies: A Data File for Documenting American Religious Change	2018.0	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9322	795	61	serious challenges: religious mergers and schisms, changes in membership standards within certain groups, missing data and changes in county boundaries. members and had adherents estimated by data collectors using the county-level multiplier (Grammich across the datasets because of mergers, schisms or changes in how a group's data groups missing adherent and/or congregation data for a single year and by providing Table 1 Adherents of groups affected by schisms, mergers, or other changes in aggregation possible to use the old county-level estimation formula to create an adherent count There are 11 groups that have congregation counts but are missing adherents in 1990. Six religious groups provided both adherent and congregation data in all 4 years, but are excluded Merging the Religious Congregations and Membership Studies: A Data File for Documenting American Religious Change Merging the Religious Congregations and Membership Studies: A Data File for Documenting American Religious Change	./cache/work_xtlpctdlpreynonngowxc7mloq.pdf	./txt/work_xtlpctdlpreynonngowxc7mloq.txt