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Survey of African-American Priests and Seminarians, 1992

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SOCACTIV

Using the scale given below, please indicate to what extent you feel the following are ministerial priorities for you. Please read through all the items, and then go back and evaluate. -- Working with community organizations and political groups in social action activities to respond to the basic human needs of good clothing, housing, employment, etc.

	1) Very low priority
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	7) Very high priority

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very low priority	12	7.9%	7.9%	-2.01
	11	7.2%	15.1%	-1.45
	15	9.9%	25%	-.88
	28	18.4%	43.4%	-.32
	38	25%	68.4%	.25
	23	15.1%	83.6%	.81
Very high priority	25	16.4%	100%	1.37

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	21-29	30-39	40-49	50-64	65&over	TOTAL
Very low priority	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	8.5% 4	16.7% 7	5.9% 1	8.1% 12
	0.0% 0	3.4% 1	10.6% 5	9.5% 4	0.0% 0	6.7% 10
	7.1% 1	3.4% 1	8.5% 4	14.3% 6	17.6% 3	10.1% 15
	7.1% 1	27.6% 8	23.4% 11	4.8% 2	29.4% 5	18.1% 27
	35.7% 5	24.1% 7	25.5% 12	19.0% 8	29.4% 5	24.8% 37
	21.4% 3	20.7% 6	8.5% 4	16.7% 7	17.6% 3	15.4% 23
Very high priority	28.6% 4	20.7% 6	14.9% 7	19.0% 8	0.0% 0	16.8% 25
TOTAL	100.0% 14	100.0% 29	100.0% 47	100.0% 42	100.0% 17	149

Household income (I-INCOME)

	<15K	15K-19,999	20K-29,999	30K-39,999	40K&over	TOTAL
Very low priority	6.4% 3	4.2% 1	10.7% 3	17.4% 4	5.0% 1	8.5% 12
	2.1% 1	4.2% 1	3.6% 1	13.0% 3	20.0% 4	7.0% 10
	6.4% 3	25.0% 6	7.1% 2	8.7% 2	0.0% 0	9.2% 13
	17.0% 8	20.8% 5	17.9% 5	17.4% 4	25.0% 5	19.0% 27
	27.7% 13	12.5% 3	32.1% 9	13.0% 3	35.0% 7	24.6% 35
	21.3% 10	20.8% 5	3.6% 1	8.7% 2	10.0% 2	14.1% 20
Very high priority	19.1% 9	12.5% 3	25.0% 7	21.7% 5	5.0% 1	17.6% 25
TOTAL	100.0% 47	100.0% 24	100.0% 28	100.0% 23	100.0% 20	142

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Predominantly Protestant or non-Christian background	Mixed religious affiliations	Predominantly Catholic background	TOTAL
Very low priority	8.9% 4	5.1% 2	8.8% 6	7.9% 12
	11.1% 5	0.0% 0	8.8% 6	7.2% 11
	15.6% 7	7.7% 3	7.4% 5	9.9% 15
	24.4% 11	20.5% 8	13.2% 9	18.4% 28
	22.2% 10	30.8% 12	23.5% 16	25.0% 38
	4.4% 2	12.8% 5	23.5% 16	15.1% 23
Very high priority	13.3% 6	23.1% 9	14.7% 10	16.4% 25
TOTAL	100.0% 45	100.0% 39	100.0% 68	152