(1906– ; annual; GC ; limited circulation). An annual statistical summary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church activities issued as a separate publication since 1906 (reporting for the year 1905), at first apparently as a reprint from the Review and Herald .
Statistical reports for the denomination date from the fifth annual session of the General Conference, held in 1867, when a brief table of nine lines and one column in width was published in the Review and Herald . This was done in accordance with a resolution passed at the preceding session that statistics from conferences were to be furnished by the delegates to the General Conference from each local conference. At that time there were 28 ministers, 160 churches, and 4,320 members in the Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Vermont, and Minnesota conferences and in the New England Mission, all in North America. The reports were published in the Yearbook for the years 1882 to 1893, and in the General Conference Bulletin for the years 1892 to 1902, and even after the separate publication began, the statistics, at least in summary, continued to be published in the Review and Herald for some years, into the 1920s.
This report devotes 22 pages to the main table, which gives 35 items of information about church membership, contributions, church workers, and etc., for each conference, mission, union, and division. The remaining pages provide historical statistics, departmental statistics, and summary tables.