Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Um no, I said his analysis, that a small increase respesents a decline, was incomplete because the native population (from which Churches initially draw) has been falling. So if the fall year-on-year has been arrested that means that the Churches are recruiting faster than people are leaving, and a rise means they are even recruiting faster than people a dieing.
I was not aware that the "Native" population was falling. Do you have a stat for that? AFAIK the birth rate of most social/ethnic groups is healthy in the UK.

I can appreciate that the Native proportion of the total UK population has fallen, but that's a result of a larger growth rate of "non-natives" -primarily through immigration.

The stats at the bottom of this are about the actual tally of bums on benches, not proportions of total population. Your reasoning relies on the assumption that the COE leaning ethnic population are in decline -and it is not substantiated.

I'm surprised that the Catholic stats are not better given the influx of Poles.