Faith Communities Today (FACT) 2000, Combined File

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


EXPOSIT (Weighted by WEIGHT)

How often does the [sermon/homily/lesson] include a lot of: Detailed explanations of scripture or doctrine
  0) Missing
  1) Never
  2) Seldom
  3) Sometimes
  4) Often
  5) Always

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage
Missing 76 .7% .7%
Never 68 .6% 1.3%
Seldom 544 4.8% 6.1%
Sometimes 2455 21.8% 27.9%
Often 4926 43.8% 71.7%
Always 3173 28.2% 99.9%
Missing 3059 % %

Variable Comparisons

Religion (I-RELIGION)

Liberal Protestant Moderate Protestant Evangelical Protestant Historically Black Catholic and Orthodox Other TOTAL
Missing 0.6%
9
0.0%
1
0.0%
1
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
8.5%
65
0.7%
76
Never 1.4%
20
0.8%
24
0.4%
23
0.0%
0
1.2%
1
0.0%
0
0.6%
68
Seldom 12.6%
177
6.4%
204
2.3%
132
0.0%
0
6.2%
5
3.4%
26
4.8%
544
Sometimes 33.7%
475
30.2%
963
14.3%
830
0.0%
0
30.9%
25
21.1%
161
21.8%
2454
Often 36.1%
508
42.4%
1352
45.1%
2620
0.0%
0
46.9%
38
53.4%
408
43.8%
4926
Always 15.6%
219
20.2%
642
37.9%
2197
0.0%
0
14.8%
12
13.6%
104
28.2%
3174
Missing 11 53 58 1805 1061 71 3059
TOTAL 100.0%
1408
100.0%
3186
100.0%
5803
100.0%
0
100.0%
81
100.0%
764

11242


Region (I-REGION)

North east South North central West Missing TOTAL
Missing 0.7%
9
0.5%
19
0.6%
19
1.2%
28

1
0.7%
75
Never 1.1%
15
0.3%
13
0.4%
14
1.1%
25

0
0.6%
67
Seldom 7.9%
109
3.1%
130
6.0%
196
4.6%
106

4
4.9%
541
Sometimes 27.1%
374
18.3%
758
24.4%
800
21.6%
497

26
21.9%
2429
Often 38.2%
526
44.6%
1848
44.6%
1460
44.4%
1019

74
43.7%
4853
Always 25.0%
345
33.3%
1380
24.0%
786
27.1%
622

41
28.2%
3133
Missing 509 1127 901 435 0 2972
TOTAL 100.0%
1378
100.0%
4148
100.0%
3275
100.0%
2297

146

11098