Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

===Membership===
Soka Gakkai International claims a total of over 12 million adherents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/at-a-glance/a-global-organization.html |title=A Global Organization |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Soka Global (SGI) |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref> The majority of these belong to the Japanese organization, whose official membership count is 8.27 million households.<ref>{{cite web |title=概要 |url=http://www.sokanet.jp/info/gaiyo.html |work=SOKAnet 創価学会公式サイト |publisher=Soka Gakkai |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> However, this is the figure put forward by the organization itself, and is not supported by any independent count. According to the work of American academic Levi McLaughlin, membership in Japan is closer to 2-3% of the country's population, or between 2.4 and 4 million people.

In a 1996 NHK survey, it was found that Soka Gakkai adherent made up somewhere around 3.2% of the Japanese population, or somewhere around 4 million individuals.<ref name="1996statistics">[http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/7770.html Religion in Japan by prefecture, 1996]. [[:File:Religion in Japan by prefecture, 1996 statistics.png|English language bar table.]]</ref> According to statistics from the [[Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan)|Agency for Cultural Affairs]] (a body of the [[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology|Japanese Ministry of Education]]), the Japanese organization had 5.42 million individual members in 2000.<ref name="bunka2">{{cite web |url=http://www.relnet.co.jp/relnet/brief/r3-01.htm |title=わが国における主な宗教団体名 |publisher=文化庁 |date=1995-12-31 |access-date=2013-11-01}}</ref>

In a 2002–2003 survey of 602 Soka Gakkai adherents living in [[Sapporo]], [[Hokkaido]] who had at least one child over the age of 18, it was found that 65.9% of those members' adult children were also themselves active members. Additionally, it was found that among the siblings of 418 second-generation members, collectively speaking, 69.5% of all those siblings were also active members. A further analysis found that "higher degrees of parental religiosity, better family relationships, and higher levels of participation in youth groups" contributed to higher degrees of religiosity among Soka Gakkai children during middle school years, although this effect was more pronounced in women than in men.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Inose |first=Yūri |date=2005 |title=Influential Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: The Case of Sōka Gakkai in Hokkaido |journal=Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=371–382 |jstor=30234069 |issn=0304-1042}}</ref>

A study in Europe found that most of new members joined because of the personalities of the people they met within the organization; but the biggest reason for continuing is the positive changes they see in their own lives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dobbelaere |first1=Karel |title=Soka Gakkai |date=1998 |publisher=Signature Books |isbn=978-1-56085-153-0 |page=38}}</ref>