New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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ASPECT7 Indicate the extent to which your own ministry efforts have affected your parish in the following aspects. - Pastoral care to those with various needs   1) Made it worse   2) Continued what was there   3) Some improvement   4) Added considerably

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Made it worse	2	.6%	.6%	-2.3
Continued what was there	133	41.2%	41.8%	-1.01
Some improvement	121	37.5%	79.3%	.28
Added considerably	67	20.7%	100%	1.57

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.4% 1	1.5% 1	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	37.1% 95	56.7% 38	41.2% 133
Some improvement	39.8% 102	28.4% 19	37.5% 121
Added considerably	22.7% 58	13.4% 9	20.7% 67
TOTAL	100.0% 256	100.0% 67	323

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.3% 2	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	4.3% 1	23.8% 15	37.6% 38	57.5% 50	63.6% 28	41.5% 132
Some improvement	39.1% 9	44.4% 28	40.6% 41	32.2% 28	29.5% 13	37.4% 119
Added considerably	56.5% 13	31.7% 20	21.8% 22	8.0% 7	6.8% 3	20.4% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 23	100.0% 63	100.0% 101	100.0% 87	100.0% 44	318

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.7% 2	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	40.9% 117	42.4% 14	41.1% 131
Some improvement	38.5% 110	30.3% 10	37.6% 120
Added considerably	19.9% 57	27.3% 9	20.7% 66
TOTAL	100.0% 286	100.0% 33	319

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Made it worse	1.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	28.5% 39	51.9% 81	41.7% 10	66.7% 2	41.3% 132
Some improvement	41.6% 57	33.3% 52	41.7% 10	33.3% 1	37.5% 120
Added considerably	28.5% 39	14.7% 23	16.7% 4	0.0% 0	20.6% 66
TOTAL	100.0% 137	100.0% 156	100.0% 24	100.0% 3	320

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.0% 0	2.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	48.3% 29	47.9% 45	35.2% 56	40.0% 2	41.5% 132
Some improvement	33.3% 20	34.0% 32	41.5% 66	40.0% 2	37.7% 120
Added considerably	18.3% 11	16.0% 15	23.3% 37	20.0% 1	20.1% 64
TOTAL	100.0% 60	100.0% 94	100.0% 159	100.0% 5	318

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.9% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	48.5% 112	21.7% 18	33.3% 1	41.3% 131
Some improvement	35.9% 83	41.0% 34	66.7% 2	37.5% 119
Added considerably	14.7% 34	37.3% 31	0.0% 0	20.5% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 231	100.0% 83	100.0% 3	317

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Made it worse	0.7% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 2
Continued what was there	39.8% 119	52.4% 11	100.0% 3	41.2% 133
Some improvement	37.5% 112	42.9% 9	0.0% 0	37.5% 121
Added considerably	22.1% 66	4.8% 1	0.0% 0	20.7% 67
TOTAL	100.0% 299	100.0% 21	100.0% 3	323