New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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READ7 Here is a list of periodicals ministers report reading. Perhaps you read some of these as well. Please indicate how frequently you read these periodicals. - Church Personnel Issues   1) Regularly   2) Often   3) Seldom   4) Never

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Regularly	2	.5%	.5%	-8.02
Often	6	1.6%	2.1%	-5.28
Seldom	10	2.7%	4.8%	-2.54
Never	358	95.2%	100%	.2

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Regularly	0.7% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	1.3% 4	2.7% 2	1.6% 6
Seldom	3.0% 9	1.3% 1	2.7% 10
Never	95.0% 286	96.0% 72	95.2% 358
TOTAL	100.0% 301	100.0% 75	376

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Regularly	3.6% 1	1.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	0.0% 0	2.6% 2	1.7% 2	2.0% 2	0.0% 0	1.6% 6
Seldom	0.0% 0	5.3% 4	3.3% 4	2.0% 2	0.0% 0	2.7% 10
Never	96.4% 27	90.8% 69	95.0% 114	95.9% 94	100.0% 49	95.1% 353
TOTAL	100.0% 28	100.0% 76	100.0% 120	100.0% 98	100.0% 49	371

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Regularly	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	1.5% 5	2.6% 1	1.6% 6
Seldom	2.1% 7	5.3% 2	2.4% 9
Never	95.8% 320	92.1% 35	95.4% 355
TOTAL	100.0% 334	100.0% 38	372

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Regularly	1.3% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	0.7% 1	1.6% 3	3.8% 1	0.0% 0	1.3% 5
Seldom	3.3% 5	2.6% 5	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.7% 10
Never	94.8% 145	95.8% 181	96.2% 25	100.0% 5	95.4% 356
TOTAL	100.0% 153	100.0% 189	100.0% 26	100.0% 5	373

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Regularly	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.3% 1
Often	1.3% 1	2.9% 3	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	1.4% 5
Seldom	0.0% 0	1.9% 2	4.5% 8	0.0% 0	2.7% 10
Never	98.7% 78	95.2% 100	94.3% 166	100.0% 10	95.7% 354
TOTAL	100.0% 79	100.0% 105	100.0% 176	100.0% 10	370

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Regularly	0.0% 0	2.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	1.5% 4	1.1% 1	0.0% 0	1.4% 5
Seldom	2.2% 6	3.2% 3	0.0% 0	2.4% 9
Never	96.3% 263	93.5% 87	100.0% 3	95.7% 353
TOTAL	100.0% 273	100.0% 93	100.0% 3	369

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Regularly	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	1.7% 6	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.6% 6
Seldom	2.6% 9	4.2% 1	0.0% 0	2.7% 10
Never	95.1% 330	95.8% 23	100.0% 5	95.2% 358
TOTAL	100.0% 347	100.0% 24	100.0% 5	376