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facie case for a cost-benefit analysis which it would be interesting
to pursue because of the varied behavioural responses which would
probably result. But we can only note the point and leave it be.
The content of the scheme is based on isolating differing
parish variables, applying an agreed weight "...based and adjusted
by long experience of Stewardship Missions" to each, and thereby
evaluating a 'family count' for each parish. This count multiplied
by a rate of giving deemed appropriate for the parish yields the
parish potential income. Summating all the parishes within a deanery
produces the deanery potential income, and summating all the deaneries
produces the potential income for the diocese. The formula then
becomes :
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Potential income of deanery
Potential income of diocese
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× Diocesan budget |
Deaneries are responsible for checking original data, and
later apportioning share over their constituent parishes with power
to adjust.
5.3.5
The Lincoln diocesan scheme calculates a theoretical Church of
England membership from the civil population as published in the
Parliamentary Register of Electors:
"20 per cent of the 1,000 population
15 per cent of the second 1,000 population
10 per cent of the third 1,000 population
5 per cent of the remainder."
This is then summated to produce a diocesan total population
which is divided into the diocesan budget to produce a charge per
head, e.g. if diocesan population is 100,319, and diocesan budget
