20 years of internet giants #infographic - Most popular websites 1998 to 2018

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

Found via a digg email

3 min 4 sec clip - well worth a look - your phone is now a #refugee's phone [watch on a mobile]

 
found via @wef 

If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?  
This striking film, designed to watch on a mobile phone, helps the viewer to experience with immediacy the confusion and fear facing refugees making a perilous journey by boat. 

Your phone is now a refugee’s phone. Text messages arrive from your family. Suddenly someone contacts you on WhatsApp warning you to turn back. But are they right? Your lifeline is a phone with no signal that’s rapidly running out of battery. 

The film is based on research conducted by BBC Media Action, in partnership with DAHLIA, to help humanitarian agencies be aware of the communication issues of refugees in transit. It found that access to internet, mobile networks and social media are critical in helping people feel more informed and better connected. For more information, visit: http://bbc.in/2amio0P

1min 41sec clip - here is #everyone who has emigrated to the #USA since 1820 to 2013

found via irtiqua

40 years of the UK Labour Force Survey - 1970's to 2013

Infographic by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

#Robotics Breakthroughs - 2012 to 2015 & anticipated 2016 to 2018 (source @rodneyabrooks via @ PeterDiamandis 's post http://bit.ly/1MzRYJO

#UK long term international #migration Oct 2013-Sept 2014 (provisonal)

source of infographic above is ONS shared under this licence

#CofE Statistics for Mission 2013 - our mindset is stuck in an era when the population wasn't growing

So it seems to me that much of the analysis and commentary need to move on from a paradigm in which our population was not growing or was stable or slowly declining.  

In such a paradigm it made some kind of sense to look at the absolute numbers.  But now our population is growing we really do need to understand church attendance as a % of population.   The table below illustrates why.

Columns A to C take various absolute numbers and show that - mostly - the Diocese that are growing are the usual suspects.

But when we use church attendance as a % of population as a measure - the picture changes to one where no diocese are growing.  

The best that can be said is that (mostly) the Diocese whose absolute numbers are growing manage to keep their church attendance as a % of population stable.

The table on the right gives a snapshot of the top rankling Diocese using the % of their population that attends a CofE church (though this isn't the same as the diocese who've maintained this % between 2009 and 2013).

Comparing the Growing Diocese in the table above (in absolute numbers) with the high ranking ones in the table to the right  - you can see there are no similarities bar Ely & Guildford.

(For Information Coventry = 1.9%, Leicester 1.5%, London 1.9%, Newcastle 1.9%, Southwell & Nottingham 1.5% and Ripon & Leeds 1.9%)

Looking at the overall trend it appears that All Age Weekly Attendance as a % of diocese population has fallen from 2.1% in 2009 to 1.9% in 2013.

(Note that the Winchester % needs to be treated with caution as the estimate for that diocese population in the CofE 2013 statistics seems to have fallen significantly between 2012 & 2013)

So what conclusions have I come to from doing some of this analysis?


1) Those in the religious press need to move away from their traditional analysis of the absolute numbers.  The picture it paints is simply wrong in terms of which diocese are doing better than others 
(For example - page 6 of the 14/11/14 Church Times had an article headlined "Attendance slope still points downward" - which does paint overall a realistic picture.  But then in the same article there is a side box looking at 2009-13.  It lists the growing dioceses as being Ely, Guildford, Leicester, London, Manchester and Newcastle. Described as stable are Coventry and Ripon and Leeds. All the other diocese were listed as falling.  Although not saying so these statements appear to be based on the Average Sunday Attendance figures in table 2 of the 2013 Report.)

2) Comparison with similar institutions and looking at the falling % share of the general population paints a richer picture.  (E.g. In the Guardian newspaper Giles Fraser's Loose Canon column led with the headline "The Church of England is actually holding up pretty well in an adverse market" and a sub-headline summarising the thrust of his argument in the article was more people go to church on Sunday than go to Premier League stadiums on Saturday, or belong to all the political parties put together")

3) A big thanks is due to Dr Bev Botting and her team for getting the 2013 statistics out much more quickly than in recent years



Relevant links
- Others commentary on the 2013 statistics are linked to on this Thinking Anglicans post

- An earlier post on this blog summares insights into church growth from CofE research

- An earlier post on this blog summarises CofE Diocese strategies - in my view the feedback mechanism from new statistics and research into these strategies is often not explicit nor evident

England & Wales top 50 girls' and boys names - changes between 2003 and 2013

#bonus payments 2013/14

#uk #population estimates 2013

% who think xx is #morally unacceptable

Pew Research recently posted some info on global views on morality.  You can find the topline results here.

For the British results the methodology says one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3.3%.  The info was collected March 4th to 27th 2013 via telephone surveys of 1012 18+ adults.

By way of interest I have taken the info from the British survey to produce a picture - in descending order - of the % who thought the item described was morally unacceptable

#working and workless households

Infographic by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

#google #zeitgeist - here's to 2013

#GB - the way we live now

Ipsos MORI: Great Britain: the way we live now from Ipsos MORI

where our attention went #2013 (#usa)

found via upworthy

#10 #internet #stats from #Ofcom’s 10th annual Communications Market report

the source of the 10 stats I have summarised below is this report from Ofcom

1) Web based text beats SMS - For 16 to 24 yr olds web-based weekly text communication is now more popular (84%) than SMS - the most popular routes being social networking [66%], instant messaging [48%] and micro-blogging [35%].

2) Meshing – using the web to interact with others about the TV you’re watching - 25% of all UK adults regularly use text/instant messaging and social networks to do this. 

3) Just under half of that 25% claim to do so daily - and a ¼ claim to do so several times a day.   

4) People who do this are significantly more likely to be - female, younger, from the ABC1 social group, with children in the household.

5) 49% of people now use their mobile phone - to access the internet

6) More than 30% of webpage traffic came from - mobile phones and tablets in February 2013

7) The proportion of webpage views from desktop - and laptop computers declined by 20 % points to 69% in the 11 months to February 2013

8) 74% of 25-34 yr olds - use mobile internet (up 40 % points)

9) But the fastest growth was among - those aged 55-64, increasing more than five-fold in four years. 

10) 75% of households  - have broadband and 80% have access to the internet

(ht to microsoft clip art for the image)

2013 #internet trends

KPCB Internet Trends 2013 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

via allthingsdigital

we are social future factors 2013

We Are Social - Future Factors 2013 from We Are Social Singapore

global agenda outlook 2013 - 10 risks or issues

the following are the 10 key issues or risks that caught my attention or caused me to reflect when I read the World Economic Forum's report on the global agenda outlook 2013 (which was produced in 2012) ......






1) There is a lack of effective global regulation of global companies and industries

2) USA fuel independence may lead to their withdrawal from the Middle East

3) Trust has been lost - by the finance sector, by politicians.  Without a moral framework that supports trust the market cannot function.  Somehow money (or its ability to buy influence with politicians) needs to be taken out of politics.

4) People seem to now trust their social media contacts, circles, follows (so presumably this will fall prey to even more manipulation by those with money). 

5) In some countries the financial sector is not proportionate to the "real economy"

6) Is the spreading industrialisation and globalisation environmentally sustainable and will our hyper-connectivity lead to a risk of a systems failure with global consequences? (maybe this has already happened with finance?)

7) Laws governing data collection about people need some improvement

8) In the USA the time has passed when a president could get elected by only appealing to whites

9) It appears central banks and politicians do not have a solution to the Eurozone Crisis and the generally poor economic outlook

10) warfare using special forces and drones rather than tanks appears to be occurring - but is this a western centric viewpoint and what will China do?

go further for #fairtrade in #2013