POPULATION. 



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State 60.8 per cent of the Baptists are negroes and 69.4 per 

 cent of the negro church members are Baptists. Second, 

 the Catholics often count in their membership whole fam- 

 ilies, with persons of all ages, so that their figures should 

 be divided by about two to be comparable with those for 

 Protestants; while the Jews count only heads of families, 

 so that their figures should be multiplied correspondingly. 

 These corrections have not been attempted in the table, how- 

 ever, the census returns being taken literally. The lesser 

 denominations have been omitted from the table. 



TABLE 29. 



Percentage statistics of religious denominations in southern Alabama, 



1906. 



No attempt has been made to estimate the ratio of church 

 members to total population, partly because we have no 

 exact data for the population in 1906, and partly because 

 the religious census is made not by asking each individual 

 what church he belongs to (as seems to be done in some 

 European countries), but by correspondence with church 

 officials, so that the results are not as accurate as a house- 

 to-house enumeration would be, and comparisons might be 

 misleading. 



