Demographics in U.S. Congregations Survey, Parishioners

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CHFRIEND If you choose your church as an adult, which of the following were the most important reasons for you in choosing your present congregation? Please give up to five reasons for choosing your church from the list below by writing "1" for the most important characteristic, "2" for next most, etc. - friendliness of the congregation   0) No # not important   1) Most important   2) 2   3) 3   4) 4   5) Least important   8) No #, all same #

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
No # not important	204	30.5%	30.5%	-1
Most important	127	19%	49.5%	-.47
2	123	18.4%	67.9%	.07
3	98	14.6%	82.5%	.61
4	62	9.3%	91.8%	1.15
Least important	35	5.2%	97%	1.68
No #, all same #	20	3%	100%	3.3

Variable Comparisons

Age Gender Education Religion Church attendance Race

Age (I-AGE)

	1900-1930	1931-1950	1951-1960	1961-1970	1971-1980	1981-1995	TOTAL
No # not important	35.7% 35	31.9% 75	27.9% 48	27.1% 26	27.5% 14	35.3% 6	30.5% 204
Most important	21.4% 21	17.9% 42	15.7% 27	24.0% 23	23.5% 12	11.8% 2	19.0% 127
2	20.4% 20	16.6% 39	21.5% 37	16.7% 16	19.6% 10	5.9% 1	18.4% 123
3	10.2% 10	15.3% 36	14.0% 24	17.7% 17	11.8% 6	29.4% 5	14.6% 98
4	5.1% 5	10.2% 24	11.6% 20	7.3% 7	9.8% 5	5.9% 1	9.3% 62
Least important	2.0% 2	4.3% 10	7.6% 13	5.2% 5	7.8% 4	5.9% 1	5.2% 35
No #, all same #	5.1% 5	3.8% 9	1.7% 3	2.1% 2	0.0% 0	5.9% 1	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 98	100.0% 235	100.0% 172	100.0% 96	100.0% 51	100.0% 17	669

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
No # not important	30.3% 130	30.8% 72	30.5% 202
Most important	19.1% 82	18.8% 44	19.0% 126
2	18.2% 78	18.4% 43	18.3% 121
3	14.2% 61	15.4% 36	14.6% 97
4	9.1% 39	9.8% 23	9.4% 62
Least important	5.8% 25	4.3% 10	5.3% 35
No #, all same #	3.3% 14	2.6% 6	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 429	100.0% 234	663

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than completing high school	Completed high school	Trade certificate or Associate degere	Bachelors degree	Masters degree/Doctorate degree/graduate degree	TOTAL
No # not important	47.1% 8	29.3% 36	24.6% 30	29.1% 62	34.8% 65	30.4% 201
Most important	35.3% 6	19.5% 24	22.1% 27	22.1% 47	11.8% 22	19.0% 126
2	11.8% 2	15.4% 19	20.5% 25	18.3% 39	19.8% 37	18.4% 122
3	5.9% 1	11.4% 14	13.9% 17	16.4% 35	16.0% 30	14.7% 97
4	0.0% 0	10.6% 13	6.6% 8	8.0% 17	12.3% 23	9.2% 61
Least important	0.0% 0	7.3% 9	6.6% 8	4.7% 10	4.3% 8	5.3% 35
No #, all same #	0.0% 0	6.5% 8	5.7% 7	1.4% 3	1.1% 2	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 17	100.0% 123	100.0% 122	100.0% 213	100.0% 187	662

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Assemblies of God	Episcopal	United Methodist Church	TOTAL
No # not important	33.6% 41	36.3% 86	24.8% 77	30.5% 204
Most important	16.4% 20	14.3% 34	23.5% 73	19.0% 127
2	10.7% 13	20.7% 49	19.7% 61	18.4% 123
3	19.7% 24	12.2% 29	14.5% 45	14.6% 98
4	7.4% 9	11.0% 26	8.7% 27	9.3% 62
Least important	9.0% 11	3.0% 7	5.5% 17	5.2% 35
No #, all same #	3.3% 4	2.5% 6	3.2% 10	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 122	100.0% 237	100.0% 310	669

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Once a month or less	Two to three times a month	Usually every week	More than once a week	TOTAL
No # not important	31.8% 7	24.7% 21	30.6% 131	32.0% 41	30.2% 200
Most important	36.4% 8	21.2% 18	17.3% 74	21.1% 27	19.2% 127
2	4.5% 1	17.6% 15	21.5% 92	10.9% 14	18.4% 122
3	4.5% 1	18.8% 16	14.0% 60	16.4% 21	14.8% 98
4	4.5% 1	11.8% 10	8.9% 38	9.4% 12	9.2% 61
Least important	13.6% 3	3.5% 3	5.4% 23	4.7% 6	5.3% 35
No #, all same #	4.5% 1	2.4% 2	2.3% 10	5.5% 7	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 22	100.0% 85	100.0% 428	100.0% 128	663

Race (I-RACE)

	Asian or Pacific Islander	Black or African American	Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin	Indian (American) or Alaskan Native	White or Caucasian	Some other race (please specify):	TOTAL
No # not important	27.3% 3	55.2% 16	37.5% 6	25.0% 1	28.6% 168	33.3% 3	30.0% 197
Most important	36.4% 4	17.2% 5	18.8% 3	0.0% 0	19.0% 112	22.2% 2	19.2% 126
2	0.0% 0	13.8% 4	25.0% 4	0.0% 0	18.9% 111	22.2% 2	18.4% 121
3	18.2% 2	6.9% 2	12.5% 2	25.0% 1	15.1% 89	11.1% 1	14.8% 97
4	9.1% 1	3.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	9.9% 58	11.1% 1	9.3% 61
Least important	9.1% 1	3.4% 1	6.3% 1	25.0% 1	5.3% 31	0.0% 0	5.3% 35
No #, all same #	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	25.0% 1	3.2% 19	0.0% 0	3.0% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 11	100.0% 29	100.0% 16	100.0% 4	100.0% 588	100.0% 9	657