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Survey of African-American Priests and Seminarians, 1992

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SUPPORTD

Using the scale given below, please express your agreement or disagreement with the following statements about the seminary. For priests, please respond as you might have when you WERE a seminarian. -- My family and friends have always supported my vocational choice.

	1) Very strongly disagree
	2)
	3)
	4)
	5)
	6)
	7) Very strongly agree

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very strongly disagree	5	3.3%	3.3%	-2.88
	5	3.3%	6.6%	-2.28
	9	5.9%	12.5%	-1.68
	11	7.2%	19.7%	-1.07
	16	10.5%	30.3%	-.47
	29	19.1%	49.3%	.13
Very strongly agree	77	50.7%	100%	.73

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	21-29	30-39	40-49	50-64	65&over	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	0.0% 0	3.4% 1	0.0% 0	7.0% 3	5.9% 1	3.4% 5
	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	4.7% 2	5.9% 1	2.0% 3
	6.7% 1	6.9% 2	11.1% 5	2.3% 1	0.0% 0	6.0% 9
	6.7% 1	6.9% 2	4.4% 2	9.3% 4	11.8% 2	7.4% 11
	0.0% 0	17.2% 5	15.6% 7	9.3% 4	0.0% 0	10.7% 16
	20.0% 3	13.8% 4	24.4% 11	14.0% 6	23.5% 4	18.8% 28
Very strongly agree	66.7% 10	51.7% 15	44.4% 20	53.5% 23	52.9% 9	51.7% 77
TOTAL	100.0% 15	100.0% 29	100.0% 45	100.0% 43	100.0% 17	149

Household income (I-INCOME)

	<15K	15K-19,999	20K-29,999	30K-39,999	40K&over	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	2.2% 1	0.0% 0	3.6% 1	4.5% 1	5.0% 1	2.9% 4
	2.2% 1	4.2% 1	3.6% 1	0.0% 0	10.0% 2	3.6% 5
	8.7% 4	4.2% 1	3.6% 1	4.5% 1	10.0% 2	6.4% 9
	8.7% 4	4.2% 1	10.7% 3	9.1% 2	0.0% 0	7.1% 10
	13.0% 6	8.3% 2	14.3% 4	4.5% 1	5.0% 1	10.0% 14
	10.9% 5	25.0% 6	25.0% 7	22.7% 5	25.0% 5	20.0% 28
Very strongly agree	54.3% 25	54.2% 13	39.3% 11	54.5% 12	45.0% 9	50.0% 70
TOTAL	100.0% 46	100.0% 24	100.0% 28	100.0% 22	100.0% 20	140

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Predominantly Protestant or non-Christian background	Mixed religious affiliations	Predominantly Catholic background	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	9.1% 4	0.0% 0	1.5% 1	3.3% 5
	2.3% 1	0.0% 0	5.9% 4	3.3% 5
	6.8% 3	7.7% 3	4.4% 3	6.0% 9
	9.1% 4	10.3% 4	4.4% 3	7.3% 11
	11.4% 5	12.8% 5	8.8% 6	10.6% 16
	22.7% 10	23.1% 9	14.7% 10	19.2% 29
Very strongly agree	38.6% 17	46.2% 18	60.3% 41	50.3% 76
TOTAL	100.0% 44	100.0% 39	100.0% 68	151