[QCWA] 2011 Membership Totals

[Dave - VE3JX]

Greetings all,

As many of you may know from past years, I like to extract membership data from
the Rosters, as they appear each year about now.

Our General Manager, Chuck Walbridge, K1IGD, has already posted the new
Membership Roster for this year.  The figures contained therein are as of June
30th, 2011.

Below, you will find a some of the data and statistics coming from the new
Roster, as well as from those of previous years.  Because of the extent of the
statistics worked up from the raw data of the Roster, they will be presented in
more than one email, just to keep things from getting lost in the pile of info.

We'll start out with the Totals gleaned, and go from there.  First, I must state
that I don't know how the formatting will turn out since the reflector does not
pass HTML formatting, nor special fonts/codes.  But the figures should all be
there, albeit skewed from the "titles".

The 1st chart shows the raw totals taken from each year's roster.  As can be
seen, there is a small drop each year.  DX total is slightly down this year as
well, although it is still higher than 3 years ago.

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MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS

 QCWA Membership

(as of June 30th) 2008  2009  2010  2011
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US Totals           6469  6333  6127  6015
DX Totals             442   462   474   468

Grand Totals       6911  6795  6601  6483
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The 2nd chart shows the actual decrease or increase from each previous year.
The 3rd chart expresses this as a percentage.

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Annual Increase/Decrease
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                                   2009  2010  2011
                                   -------------------
US -                             -136 -206 -112
DX -                                20    12    -6

Total -                          -116 -194 -118
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Annual % Increase/Decrease
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                                 2009    2010    2011
                                 ----------------------
US -                         -2.1%  -3.3%  -1.8%
DX -                          4.5%   2.6%   -1.3%

Total -                      -1.7%   -2.9%  -1.8%
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This 4th chart shows the increase/decrease, as expressed in numbers and
percentage, over the 3-year period of 2008 to 2011.

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3-Year Inc./ Dec. 2008 -2011    #       %
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US                                        -454   -7.0%
DX                                           26    5.9%

Total                                      -428   -6.2%
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Unhappily, our numbers seem to be slipping ever so slowly.  Over time, they
become significant.  However, there are bright spots in the figures, as future
emails will show.

Cheers,

Dave Hayes VE3JX
QCWA Life Member
QCWA WRO Columnist