Also, EVERY CO visit used to complain about meeting attendance always being low when compared with number of publishers. When they count non-publisher children as attenders, that makes for a telling statistic.
This was always my experience too...oddly enough, though, our last CO visit was quite different. In the concluding talk of the visit, where they typically guilt trip you about service time and meeting attendance, he said that the elders had complained to him that meeting attendence was a problem, but he thought we were doing just fine. This is odd because we typically have maybe 60-70% attendence for sunday, and probably closer to 50% for the mid-week.
To me this indicates one of two possibilities. He might be the good-cop CO prepping us for the bad-cop CO. The other possibility is he could be seeing the greater trend of people leaving, and 50-70% attendance may strike him as exceptional these days. He's made lots of comments that sound very non-WT, like "even if we're not doing everything we should be, or even if we're not making all the meetings, we're still so much better in god's eyes than the rest of the world." In general he spends a lot of time saying things that seem to be aimed at making people feel less guilty, which I don't remember hearing ever before.