Archive - Mormon Metrics

Ex-Mormons Are the Most Republican Religious Leavers in America

Analyzing data from Pew's Three Religious Landscape Studies

May 22 • Alex Bass

Looking at Mobility Data and Latter-day Saints Using the General Social Survey

May 15 • Alex Bass

A Reader Sharpened Last Week's Analysis. Here's What Changed.

Let's Account For Regional, Country-level, and State-level Growth in These Charts

May 8 • Alex Bass

The United States Is Declining In Official Membership For The First Time. Why?

Exploring this question using the newly released dashboard

May 1 • Alex Bass

April 2026

Two Kinds Of Growth: A Story Of Worldwide LDS Membership Growth The Last 14 Years

Explore the worldwide LDS dashboard launched today!

Apr 24 • Alex Bass

April 2026 General Conference Stats: Record Baptisms, But The Birth Problem Persists

Let's look at some trend charts over time

Apr 17 • Alex Bass

Is There A LDS Religious Resurgence Happening?

New 2025 Survey Data Update of the Cooperative Election Study

Apr 10 • Alex Bass

Why Are Latter-day Saints Moving Left?

New Yougov report shows that LDS have moved 20 points left the last 15 years while everyone else moved right.

Apr 3 • Alex Bass

March 2026

"Polite Polarization" & Latter-day Saints

A few behind the scenes notes on my latest piece with the American Community Project

Mar 27 • Alex Bass

Part 2: The Post-2014 Religious Shift. Are Latter-day Saints Beating Secular Headwinds?

Looking Closer At Protestant Denominations vs. Latter-day Saints

Mar 20 • Alex Bass

Are Latter-day Saints Beating Secular Headwinds?

Analysis of the Cooperative Election Study, Pew Religious Landscape Study, and the General Social Survey

Mar 13 • Alex Bass

Fact Check: Does Utah Really Have The Largest Homes?

Fact Checking a Chart I found on the Internet

Mar 6 • Alex Bass

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