Faith Communities Today (FACT) 2000, Combined File

Data Archive > U.S. Surveys > Religious Groups > Congregations/Other Organizations > Faith Communities Today > Analysis


GODLOVE (Weighted by WEIGHT)

How often does the [sermon/homily/lesson] in your worship focus on: God's love and care
  0) Missing
  1) Never
  2) Seldom
  3) Sometimes
  4) Often
  5) Always

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage
Missing 67 .5% .5%
Never 14 .1% .6%
Seldom 40 .3% .9%
Sometimes 731 5.6% 6.5%
Often 5931 45.4% 51.9%
Always 6273 48% 99.9%
Missing 1244 % %

Variable Comparisons

Religion (I-RELIGION)

Liberal Protestant Moderate Protestant Evangelical Protestant Historically Black Catholic and Orthodox Other TOTAL
Missing 0.0%
0
0.0%
1
0.0%
1
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
8.5%
65
0.5%
67
Never 1.0%
14
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.1%
14
Seldom 1.9%
26
0.0%
0
0.1%
7
0.1%
2
0.0%
0
0.7%
5
0.3%
40
Sometimes 3.6%
50
3.1%
99
8.3%
483
0.9%
17
9.9%
8
9.4%
72
5.6%
729
Often 50.8%
710
43.9%
1413
52.4%
3029
15.2%
275
49.4%
40
60.6%
464
45.4%
5931
Always 42.8%
598
53.0%
1707
39.2%
2266
83.7%
1510
40.7%
33
20.9%
160
48.1%
6274
Missing 22 18 75 0 1061 69 1245
TOTAL 100.0%
1398
100.0%
3220
100.0%
5786
100.0%
1804
100.0%
81
100.0%
766

13055


Region (I-REGION)

North east South North central West Missing TOTAL
Missing 0.4%
7
0.3%
17
0.4%
14
1.1%
28

1
0.5%
66
Never 0.3%
4
0.1%
4
0.1%
3
0.1%
3

0
0.1%
14
Seldom 0.6%
10
0.2%
8
0.3%
12
0.4%
9

1
0.3%
39
Sometimes 4.3%
67
5.1%
258
6.4%
238
6.3%
160

8
5.6%
723
Often 46.3%
728
44.3%
2237
44.8%
1669
49.2%
1241

56
45.7%
5875
Always 48.2%
758
50.0%
2522
48.0%
1789
42.8%
1079

125
47.8%
6148
Missing 313 228 450 212 0 1203
TOTAL 100.0%
1574
100.0%
5046
100.0%
3725
100.0%
2520

191

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