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

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CLERPART [Were you/was this person] a member or regular participant in this congregation before becoming the leader of the congregation?   -3) All other missing data   -2) Don‘t know   -1) Refused   1) Yes   2) No

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
All other missing data	53	3.5%	3.5%	-4.76
Don‘t know	1	.1%	3.6%	-3.73
Refused	2	.1%	3.7%	-2.71
Yes	267	17.7%	21.4%	-.66
No	1183	78.6%	100%	.37

Variable Comparisons

Year Region Theology Political ideology Religion

Year (I-YEAR)

	1998	2006	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.00% 0	3.5% 53	3.5% 53
Don‘t know	0.00% 0	0.1% 1	0.1% 1
Refused	0.00% 0	0.1% 2	0.1% 2
Yes	0.00% 0	17.7% 267	17.7% 267
No	0.00% 0	78.6% 1183	78.6% 1183
TOTAL	100.0% 0	100.0% 1506	1506

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	3.6% 8	3.3% 13	3.4% 20	4.1% 12	3.5% 53
Don‘t know	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 2	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
Yes	15.6% 35	13.8% 54	17.1% 102	25.9% 76	17.7% 267
No	80.4% 180	82.9% 324	79.2% 473	70.1% 206	78.6% 1183
TOTAL	100.0% 224	100.0% 391	100.0% 597	100.0% 294	1506

Theology (I-THEOLOGY)

	More on the conservative side	Right in the middle	More on the liberal side	TOTAL
All other missing data	4.0% 33	2.1% 10	2.8% 4	3.2% 47
Don‘t know	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Refused	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
Yes	20.6% 172	15.1% 73	11.3% 16	17.9% 261
No	75.2% 628	82.6% 398	85.8% 121	78.7% 1147
TOTAL	100.0% 835	100.0% 482	100.0% 141	1458

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	More on the conservative side	Right in the middle	More on the liberal side	TOTAL
All other missing data	3.3% 25	2.5% 14	2.7% 3	3.0% 42
Don‘t know	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Refused	0.3% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
Yes	19.8% 149	16.1% 89	15.2% 17	18.0% 255
No	76.6% 577	81.2% 448	82.1% 92	78.8% 1117
TOTAL	100.0% 753	100.0% 552	100.0% 112	1417

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Roman Catholic	White conservative, evangelical, or fundamentalist	Black Protestant	White liberal or moderate	Non-Christian	TOTAL
All other missing data	0.8% 3	6.2% 36	2.2% 4	1.2% 4	11.5% 6	3.5% 53
Don‘t know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Refused	0.0% 0	0.3% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
Yes	13.7% 50	23.3% 136	27.6% 51	5.9% 19	21.2% 11	17.7% 267
No	85.5% 312	70.2% 409	70.3% 130	92.5% 297	67.3% 35	78.6% 1183
TOTAL	100.0% 365	100.0% 583	100.0% 185	100.0% 321	100.0% 52	1506