Calculating Decadal Growth Rates

Decadal Growth Rates (DGR) are often used to evaluate and compare population growth or Christian growth rates. You will need data for a ten year period to calculate DGR. The attached .pdf file explains how to do the calculation.

It is possible to use a calculator or a spreadsheet to perform these calculations. Also there are several similar spreadsheets in the Research Download library (tools) that are set up to calculate DGR.

Tables found in the Church Growth Survey Handbook are useful to determine DGRs (found in the Resource Download library, Training)..
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