That information is combined with records of contacts by the Home Office with that church. There's a lot of information here. They realize they need this information to do this job. There's no pressure on the RD's to gather this information but it gives them a place to put the information they discover on a visit to a church. Each one is supplied with a notebook computer for their travels and a desktop computer at their home.
Missionaries have a form for collecting information.
A database like this could be of use to the missionaries themselves. They could add in their own personal supporters. The missionaries receive a subset of this information. We don't give it to them in the database form. In some cases only.