New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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CLOSE1 For each relationship shown below, please indicate how close you feel on a scale from 1 (very close) to 5 (not at all close). - How close do you feel to God most of the time?   1) Very close   2)   3)   4)

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very close	183	48.7%	48.7%	-.9
	149	39.6%	88.3%	.51
	41	10.9%	99.2%	1.93
	3	.8%	100%	3.35

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Very close	52.0% 157	35.1% 26	48.7% 183
	38.7% 117	43.2% 32	39.6% 149
	8.6% 26	20.3% 15	10.9% 41
	0.7% 2	1.4% 1	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 302	100.0% 74	376

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Very close	74.1% 20	54.5% 42	53.3% 64	41.4% 41	29.2% 14	48.8% 181
	25.9% 7	39.0% 30	39.2% 47	41.4% 41	45.8% 22	39.6% 147
	0.0% 0	6.5% 5	6.7% 8	16.2% 16	22.9% 11	10.8% 40
	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 1	1.0% 1	2.1% 1	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 27	100.0% 77	100.0% 120	100.0% 99	100.0% 48	371

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Very close	47.6% 159	52.6% 20	48.1% 179
	41.3% 138	28.9% 11	40.1% 149
	10.5% 35	15.8% 6	11.0% 41
	0.6% 2	2.6% 1	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 334	100.0% 38	372

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Very close	48.4% 75	47.3% 89	57.7% 15	50.0% 2	48.5% 181
	40.6% 63	39.4% 74	38.5% 10	50.0% 2	39.9% 149
	11.0% 17	11.7% 22	3.8% 1	0.0% 0	10.7% 40
	0.0% 0	1.6% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 155	100.0% 188	100.0% 26	100.0% 4	373

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Very close	53.8% 42	41.1% 44	52.6% 92	20.0% 2	48.6% 180
	38.5% 30	44.9% 48	37.1% 65	30.0% 3	39.5% 146
	6.4% 5	14.0% 15	9.1% 16	50.0% 5	11.1% 41
	1.3% 1	0.0% 0	1.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 78	100.0% 107	100.0% 175	100.0% 10	370

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Very close	45.0% 122	57.9% 55	100.0% 3	48.8% 180
	40.2% 109	37.9% 36	0.0% 0	39.3% 145
	13.7% 37	4.2% 4	0.0% 0	11.1% 41
	1.1% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 271	100.0% 95	100.0% 3	369

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Very close	48.7% 169	50.0% 12	40.0% 2	48.7% 183
	39.8% 138	37.5% 9	40.0% 2	39.6% 149
	10.7% 37	12.5% 3	20.0% 1	10.9% 41
	0.9% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 347	100.0% 24	100.0% 5	376