New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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READ18 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. - Our Sunday Visitor   1) Regularly   2) Often   3) Seldom   4) Never

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Regularly	20	5.3%	5.3%	-2.85
Often	32	8.5%	13.9%	-1.69
Seldom	80	21.3%	35.2%	-.53
Never	243	64.8%	100%	.63

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Regularly	5.0% 15	6.7% 5	5.3% 20
Often	8.3% 25	9.3% 7	8.5% 32
Seldom	21.7% 65	20.0% 15	21.3% 80
Never	65.0% 195	64.0% 48	64.8% 243
TOTAL	100.0% 300	100.0% 75	375

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Regularly	10.7% 3	2.6% 2	5.0% 6	6.2% 6	6.1% 3	5.4% 20
Often	7.1% 2	9.1% 7	8.4% 10	10.3% 10	6.1% 3	8.6% 32
Seldom	14.3% 4	18.2% 14	26.9% 32	20.6% 20	20.4% 10	21.6% 80
Never	67.9% 19	70.1% 54	59.7% 71	62.9% 61	67.3% 33	64.3% 238
TOTAL	100.0% 28	100.0% 77	100.0% 119	100.0% 97	100.0% 49	370

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Regularly	5.1% 17	8.1% 3	5.4% 20
Often	6.9% 23	24.3% 9	8.6% 32
Seldom	22.2% 74	10.8% 4	21.0% 78
Never	65.9% 220	56.8% 21	65.0% 241
TOTAL	100.0% 334	100.0% 37	371

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Regularly	5.2% 8	4.8% 9	11.5% 3	0.0% 0	5.4% 20
Often	6.5% 10	10.2% 19	11.5% 3	0.0% 0	8.6% 32
Seldom	21.4% 33	23.0% 43	11.5% 3	20.0% 1	21.5% 80
Never	66.9% 103	62.0% 116	65.4% 17	80.0% 4	64.5% 240
TOTAL	100.0% 154	100.0% 187	100.0% 26	100.0% 5	372

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Regularly	9.1% 7	3.8% 4	5.1% 9	0.0% 0	5.4% 20
Often	10.4% 8	12.3% 13	5.7% 10	10.0% 1	8.7% 32
Seldom	18.2% 14	21.7% 23	22.7% 40	20.0% 2	21.4% 79
Never	62.3% 48	62.3% 66	66.5% 117	70.0% 7	64.5% 238
TOTAL	100.0% 77	100.0% 106	100.0% 176	100.0% 10	369

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Regularly	5.2% 14	5.3% 5	0.0% 0	5.2% 19
Often	9.2% 25	6.4% 6	0.0% 0	8.4% 31
Seldom	24.0% 65	14.9% 14	33.3% 1	21.7% 80
Never	61.6% 167	73.4% 69	66.7% 2	64.7% 238
TOTAL	100.0% 271	100.0% 94	100.0% 3	368

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Regularly	5.2% 18	8.3% 2	0.0% 0	5.3% 20
Often	8.4% 29	12.5% 3	0.0% 0	8.5% 32
Seldom	21.4% 74	25.0% 6	0.0% 0	21.3% 80
Never	65.0% 225	54.2% 13	100.0% 5	64.8% 243
TOTAL	100.0% 346	100.0% 24	100.0% 5	375