1996 Scouting Stats

... sorry if this is a repeat for some of you ...

From the National Meeting in Orlando, FL (May, 1997):

4,398,677 Registered Youth members
1,230,129 Registered Adult volunteers

303,073 Tiger Cubs
973,442 Cub Scouts
819,296 Webelos Scouts
2,095,811 Total Cub Scout-age youth members

925,108 Boy Scouts
74,970 Varsity Scouts
1,000,078 Total Boy Scout-age members

422,366 Explorers
880,422 Learning for Life participants

+3.3% Gain in Youth Membership
+2.5% Gain in Adult Volunteers

18,697 Scouts who attended Philmont Scout Ranch
5,064 Scouts who attended Florida NHA Sea Base
3.741 Scouts who attended Northern Tier NHA
3,206 Explorers who attended National leadership
conference & National law enforcement conference

1,791,549 Advancements earned
2,009,296 Merit Badges earned
1,440 Crime Prevention MB earned (Since Oct. '96)
35,113 Scouts who earned the Eagle Scout award

11 Honor Medals w/ Crossed Palms awarded
51 Honor Medals awarded
142 Heroism Awards presented
118 Medals of Merit presented
77 Nation Certificates of Merit presented

135,313 Registered units
58,957 Units that earned the national Quality Unit Award

133 Number of national chartered organizations
51.1% Units chartered to religious institutions
27.7% Units chartered to civic / community organizations
29,315 Highest number of units charterd to an organization
(LDS Churches)
403,243 Most youth members registered to a chartered
organization (United Methodist churches)

335 Local Councils
30 Areas
4 Regions

For more information of this nature, contact the External
Communications Division of the BSA at:

(972) 580-2263 - Voice (972) 580-7870 - Fax

YIS,

Bryan

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/ \ Bryan S. Bateman
/ O-O__ bryan.bateman@ps.net
| /___\
| \__/ 2nd ASM, Jamboree Troop 1125, Detroit Area Council
/ \ Eagle Scout Class of 1987, NESA Lifetime Member
/\/\/\/\/\/\ WB: C-16L-95 "I used to be an Eagle..."

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