New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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READ13 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. - Living Light   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%	-6.04
Often	11	2.9%	3.5%	-3.92
Seldom	30	8%	11.4%	-1.8
Never	333	88.6%	100%	.33

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Regularly	0.3% 1	1.3% 1	0.5% 2
Often	3.0% 9	2.7% 2	2.9% 11
Seldom	7.6% 23	9.3% 7	8.0% 30
Never	89.0% 268	86.7% 65	88.6% 333
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	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 1	1.0% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	3.6% 1	3.9% 3	3.3% 4	1.0% 1	2.0% 1	2.7% 10
Seldom	3.6% 1	11.8% 9	10.8% 13	7.1% 7	0.0% 0	8.1% 30
Never	92.9% 26	84.2% 64	85.0% 102	90.8% 89	98.0% 48	88.7% 329
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	2.7% 9	2.7% 1	2.7% 10
Seldom	8.7% 29	2.7% 1	8.1% 30
Never	88.1% 295	94.6% 35	88.7% 330
TOTAL	100.0% 335	100.0% 37	372

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Regularly	0.0% 0	1.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	4.6% 7	2.1% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.9% 11
Seldom	6.5% 10	9.5% 18	7.7% 2	0.0% 0	8.0% 30
Never	88.9% 136	87.3% 165	92.3% 24	100.0% 5	88.5% 330
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	1.0% 1	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	1.3% 1	1.9% 2	4.0% 7	10.0% 1	3.0% 11
Seldom	1.3% 1	4.8% 5	13.1% 23	10.0% 1	8.1% 30
Never	97.5% 77	92.4% 97	82.4% 145	80.0% 8	88.4% 327
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	0.7% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
Often	2.2% 6	5.3% 5	0.0% 0	3.0% 11
Seldom	8.8% 24	6.4% 6	0.0% 0	8.1% 30
Never	88.2% 240	88.3% 83	100.0% 3	88.3% 326
TOTAL	100.0% 272	100.0% 94	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	3.2% 11	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.9% 11
Seldom	8.4% 29	4.2% 1	0.0% 0	8.0% 30
Never	87.9% 305	95.8% 23	100.0% 5	88.6% 333
TOTAL	100.0% 347	100.0% 24	100.0% 5	376