ORIGINAL: Jim Branaum
Taken from Joyce Hagar's December 2004 MA column:
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For those who are interested, below is an age breakdown of the current AMA membership. MA
Younger than 20: 18,520
20-40: 30,693
41-60: 61,317
61-70: 26,057
71 and older: 23,267
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Unless I am suffering from CRS again, those membership numbers look like a decline from previous ones. I wonder if it is the $ or the rules.
Hi Jim-
I KNOW I suffer from CRS from time to time, but the total of a little under 160,000 seems consistent with the trend in recent years, i.e., a little less than the previous year. I do think the distribution, though the stats are kind of gross, qualitatively validates the average age the MA survey came up with - at least it appears to be between 50 and 60. With 70% over 41, these data certainly don't upset the conclusion some have drawn from the MA survey that AMA is an organization of gummers.
Abel