The Annual Personnel Study
is a profile and analysis of changes and
trends in the deployment of International
Mission Board overseas personnel.
What does the
2007 Annual Personnel Study tell us about
SBC missionaries? As a group at the end
of 2007:
• 84.3% (4,442)
married and 15.7% (829) single
• 45.6% (2,405) men and 54.4% (2,866)
women
• Long-term mean age 45, median age
45, mode 45
• Short-term mean age 38, median age
29, mode 24
• Long-term personnel length of service
mean 10 years, median 8 years, mode 4 years
The number of missionaries increased to a year-end total of 5,271*, a net gain of 163. The total number of long-term personnel (Career, Associate, and Apprentice) increased by 1.8%, while the number of short-term personnel (ISC, Journeyman, and Masters) increased by 9.1%.
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* Not included in the active count are non-official ISC-ers with less than two-year terms (see under “Less Than Two-Year International Service Corps Personnel”) and certain long- and short-term personnel who are not counted for policy reasons. Twenty one people total fall into these categories.
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