Vital Stats¶

Vital Stats Report¶

This report is accessed at People > Reports > Statistics > Vital Stats, and it has two sections. The first section reports counts of people and the second section reports Contributions. The Vital Stats report looks back 7 days and it is not dependent on a date range. It is designed to give you a quick look at the activity in your church for the past week.

In the Contributions section, the calculations are a bit different. See below for an explanation

The report is built by a Python script. No Saved Searches are required; the standard script contains its own search conditions. If your database has a Python script named VitalStats at Admin > Advanced > Special Content > Python Scripts, that script is used. Otherwise, TouchPoint uses its built-in standard script.

If you need to see different information in the Vital Stats Report for your church, a user with access to Special Content can create or revise the VitalStats Python script. If you need help contact Support.

The following is what is reported using the standard script.

Counts

This section relates to people activity.

• Members

  This will be the total number of people in the database with a church Member Status of Member.

• Decisions

  This is the number of people with a Decision recorded in the past 7 days. Cancelled decisions are not counted.

• Meetings

  This is the total number of meetings held in the past 7 days for all Involvements.

• Sum of Present in Meetings

  This is the total count of attendees in all meetings. A single person will be counted more than once if they attend more than one meeting.

• Unique Attends

  This is the count of individual people who attended any meeting in the past 7 days.

• New Attends

  This is the count of people who attended in the past 7 days and had no attendance in the 365 days before that.

• Contacts

  This is the count of people who had a Contact recorded in the past 7 days.

• Registrations

  This is the count of people who completed an online registration in the past 7 days. Each person is counted once, even if they registered for more than one event.

Contributions

This section contains information relating to receipts for all funds. Pledges are not included. These figures end one week ago, so the most recent week is not included.

• Average Gift Size

  This is the total amount received during the past year divided by the number of gifts.

• Weekly average past 4 weeks

  This is the weekly average received in the 4 weeks before the most recent week.

• Weekly average current year

  This is the weekly average received in the most recent 52 weeks.

• Weekly average previous year

  This is the weekly average received in the 52 weeks before that.

Removed the outdated Saved Search requirement, updated the menu path and Python script location, and corrected the count and contribution descriptions to match the current standard script.