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Survey of African-American Priests and Seminarians, 1992

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BLCKPREP

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. -- There has been an emphasis on preparing for African-American ministry, even for those seminarians who are not African-American.

	1) Very strongly disagree
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	7) Very strongly agree

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very strongly disagree	78	52.7%	52.7%	-.72
	25	16.9%	69.6%	-.18
	12	8.1%	77.7%	.37
	7	4.7%	82.4%	.91
	10	6.8%	89.2%	1.45
	10	6.8%	95.9%	1.99
Very strongly agree	6	4.1%	100%	2.53

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	21-29	30-39	40-49	50-64	65&over	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	71.4% 10	50.0% 14	48.8% 21	55.8% 24	47.1% 8	53.1% 77
	7.1% 1	10.7% 3	30.2% 13	16.3% 7	5.9% 1	17.2% 25
	7.1% 1	14.3% 4	9.3% 4	2.3% 1	5.9% 1	7.6% 11
	0.0% 0	3.6% 1	0.0% 0	11.6% 5	5.9% 1	4.8% 7
	14.3% 2	7.1% 2	7.0% 3	4.7% 2	5.9% 1	6.9% 10
	0.0% 0	10.7% 3	4.7% 2	4.7% 2	11.8% 2	6.2% 9
Very strongly agree	0.0% 0	3.6% 1	0.0% 0	4.7% 2	17.6% 3	4.1% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 14	100.0% 28	100.0% 43	100.0% 43	100.0% 17	145

Household income (I-INCOME)

	<15K	15K-19,999	20K-29,999	30K-39,999	40K&over	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	55.6% 25	54.2% 13	64.3% 18	61.9% 13	30.0% 6	54.3% 75
	13.3% 6	8.3% 2	25.0% 7	14.3% 3	20.0% 4	15.9% 22
	4.4% 2	8.3% 2	7.1% 2	9.5% 2	20.0% 4	8.7% 12
	6.7% 3	0.0% 0	3.6% 1	0.0% 0	15.0% 3	5.1% 7
	11.1% 5	8.3% 2	0.0% 0	9.5% 2	5.0% 1	7.2% 10
	6.7% 3	16.7% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	10.0% 2	6.5% 9
Very strongly agree	2.2% 1	4.2% 1	0.0% 0	4.8% 1	0.0% 0	2.2% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 45	100.0% 24	100.0% 28	100.0% 21	100.0% 20	138

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Predominantly Protestant or non-Christian background	Mixed religious affiliations	Predominantly Catholic background	TOTAL
Very strongly disagree	54.5% 24	48.7% 19	53.8% 35	52.7% 78
	18.2% 8	25.6% 10	10.8% 7	16.9% 25
	9.1% 4	7.7% 3	7.7% 5	8.1% 12
	4.5% 2	7.7% 3	3.1% 2	4.7% 7
	9.1% 4	5.1% 2	6.2% 4	6.8% 10
	2.3% 1	0.0% 0	13.8% 9	6.8% 10
Very strongly agree	2.3% 1	5.1% 2	4.6% 3	4.1% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 44	100.0% 39	100.0% 65	148