National Congregations Study, Cumulative Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)

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CLERGONE Is there one person who is the head or senior clergy person or religious leader in your congregation?   -3) All other missing data   -2) Don‘t know   1) Yes   2) No

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
All other missing data	1	0%	0%	-18.86
Don‘t know	1	0%	.1%	-14.18
Yes	2634	96.1%	96.2%	-.16
No	104	3.8%	100%	4.51

Variable Comparisons

Year Region Theology Political ideology Religion

Year (I-YEAR)

	1998	2006	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Don‘t know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Yes	95.4% 1177	96.7% 1457	96.1% 2634
No	4.5% 55	3.3% 49	3.8% 104
TOTAL	100.0% 1234	100.0% 1506	2740

Region (I-REGION)

	New England or Mid-Atlantic	East North Central or West North Central	South Atlantic, East South Central, or West South Central	Mountain or Pacific	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Don‘t know	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Yes	97.8% 442	96.3% 654	95.5% 1047	95.7% 491	96.1% 2634
No	2.2% 10	3.4% 23	4.5% 49	4.3% 22	3.8% 104
TOTAL	100.0% 452	100.0% 679	100.0% 1096	100.0% 513	2740

Theology (I-THEOLOGY)

	More on the conservative side	Right in the middle	More on the liberal side	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0
Don‘t know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Yes	96.1% 1418	96.8% 890	97.0% 262	96.4% 2570
No	3.9% 57	3.2% 29	3.0% 8	3.5% 94
TOTAL	100.0% 1476	100.0% 919	100.0% 270	2665

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	More on the conservative side	Right in the middle	More on the liberal side	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0
Don‘t know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Yes	96.5% 1343	96.9% 955	97.7% 209	96.8% 2507
No	3.4% 47	3.1% 31	2.3% 5	3.2% 83
TOTAL	100.0% 1391	100.0% 986	100.0% 214	2591

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Roman Catholic	White conservative, evangelical, or fundamentalist	Black Protestant	White liberal or moderate	Non-Christian	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Don‘t know	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Yes	99.4% 659	93.4% 953	96.7% 318	97.6% 615	90.8% 89	96.1% 2634
No	0.6% 4	6.4% 65	3.3% 11	2.4% 15	9.2% 9	3.8% 104
TOTAL	100.0% 663	100.0% 1020	100.0% 329	100.0% 630	100.0% 98	2740