Can someone please give me some cold hard statistics?

Question

Far too many people say such things as "There is a high rate of suicide among Mormon women" or "Mormon women have more depression" or something like that, and I want to know where they get their statistics to back this up?

And I don't want anything abouto UTAH, I want MORMON. The two are not the same thing. Utah is not all Mormon and not all Mormons live in Utah.

Answer 1

Don't have any facts for you, but I will point out a few things.

People who live in small towns have a higher rate of suicide. Utah is a big state and has a lot of small towns. In order to get accurate data, you'd have to adjust for this fact.

Utah does reportedly consume lots of anti-depresant drugs per capita, however, they also consume a lot less alcohol and cigarettes per capita. Many speculate that non-mormons tend to self medicate more while Mormons may turn more quickly to prescribed drugs.

I know that's not what you asked, but it might help shed some light on the issue.

Answer 2

People often hear statistics about Utah and assume they apply to Mormons. You are right to recognize that those two kinds of statistics are not equivalent.

I've included some Mormon statistics on my site, http://www.allaboutmormons.com/mormon_culture.php .

Some sites that address the specific issue you mentioned can be found at:

http://en.fairmormon.org/index.php/LDS_use_of_antidepressants

http://en.fairmormon.org/index.php/Suicide_rate_among_Mormons

(Short answer: The obvious is actually true. Mormons are not more likely to be depressed/suicidal.)

Answer 3

I don't think you are going to find any statistics on this plus Mormons are just like everyone else except in religious beliefs. I think you are going to find statistics, if you find them, that resemble the rest of the world. We are just as crazy as the next "guy".

Answer 4

I think the liberals do own up the spending that Obama has done. I don't understand why Republicans never admit to growing the federal budget and the debt to higher levels ever since Ronald Reagan. If you are keeping score. Reagan raised the debt. G. H. Bush raised the debt. Clinton balance the budget. G. W. Bush raised the debt. Obama raised the debt. Seems like the Democrats are better at managing federal spending, go figure.

Answer 5

58% of statistics are made up! lol

I cant wait to see these answers... im mormon and im one of the happiest people i know!

Answer 6

Great question you've asked. I don't have any statistics but I'm interested to see them.

gw

Answer 7

Statistics are often misleading, but here ya go. I tried to pick out the ones that weres pecific to LDS, but I wasn't very successful.


In 19% of the counties in the United States, at least 1% of the population are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 34% of U.S. counties, at least 1% of the religiously affiliated population are members of the Church.


The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics abortion statistics (1993) listed only two states with lower abortion ratios than Utah: Idaho (where 27% are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and Wyoming. But, whereas in Wyoming and Idaho the percentage of out-of-state residents included in the state's abortion figures were only 6 or 7 percent, the proportion in Utah was 30 percent


LDS women are more likely to graduate from college than Catholic or Protestant women, but less likely than Jewish or nonaffiliated women. For graduate education the pattern was similar--a higher percentage of LDS than Catholic or Protestant women have received graduate education.
LDS women are more likely to be employed in professional occupations than Catholic or Protestant women. Twenty-three percent of LDS women are employed in professional occupations, which is similar to Jewish women and women with no religious affiliation.

In 2000 Self magazine ranked Provo, Utah as the number 1 healthiest city in the country for women. The article said that the Mormon influence is the reason women in Provo experience such low incidents of cancer, smoking, drinking, violence, depression, etc

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young Mormon men living in Utah who closely adhere to the dictates of their faith are less likely to commit suicide than their peers who are less active in the church, study findings show.

Suicide rates in each of the four age categories studied--15 to 19 years, 20 to 24 years, 25 to 29 years, and 30 to 34 years--were lower among active members of the LDS church than among less active LDS church members, nonmembers and males in the general US population, the report indicates.

The divorce rates for Latter-day Saints who marry in the temple are 5.4 percent for men and 6.5 percent for women.
But statistics indicate that inter-faith marriages in which one partner is a Latter-day Saint and the other is not are more likely to end in divorce than other interfaith religious combinations studied, except for Jewish/non-Jewish couples


Salt Lake City has long been ranked number one among U.S. cities in Jell-O consumption.(Not anymore, lol.)

Answer 8

Are you interested in a "short term marriage" with long term benefits ?. I think perhaps you are Mormon, or related to same, and are "fed up" (nicer words than i would use) with some of the nice things (not) that ignorant people say, about people they don't know. It's like the newspapers, given the choice of printing news about "good" or "bad" , the bad will always be "prime".It's human nature.

Answer 9

There are Lies, There are Damn Lies and There are Statistics.