New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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CLOSE4 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 did you feel to the Catholic Church five years ago?   1) Very close   2)   3)   4)   5) Not at all close

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very close	103	27.7%	27.7%	-1.18
	119	32%	59.7%	-.27
	105	28.2%	87.9%	.63
	25	6.7%	94.6%	1.53
Not at all close	20	5.4%	100%	2.44

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Very close	29.5% 88	20.3% 15	27.7% 103
	30.9% 92	36.5% 27	32.0% 119
	28.9% 86	25.7% 19	28.2% 105
	5.7% 17	10.8% 8	6.7% 25
Not at all close	5.0% 15	6.8% 5	5.4% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 298	100.0% 74	372

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Very close	61.5% 16	38.7% 29	30.3% 36	13.1% 13	10.4% 5	27.0% 99
	19.2% 5	34.7% 26	30.3% 36	32.3% 32	41.7% 20	32.4% 119
	11.5% 3	22.7% 17	30.3% 36	36.4% 36	27.1% 13	28.6% 105
	3.8% 1	4.0% 3	5.0% 6	11.1% 11	6.3% 3	6.5% 24
Not at all close	3.8% 1	0.0% 0	4.2% 5	7.1% 7	14.6% 7	5.4% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 26	100.0% 75	100.0% 119	100.0% 99	100.0% 48	367

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Very close	27.9% 92	23.7% 9	27.4% 101
	32.1% 106	31.6% 12	32.1% 118
	29.7% 98	18.4% 7	28.5% 105
	6.1% 20	10.5% 4	6.5% 24
Not at all close	4.2% 14	15.8% 6	5.4% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 330	100.0% 38	368

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Very close	30.9% 47	26.2% 49	19.2% 5	25.0% 1	27.6% 102
	34.2% 52	29.9% 56	30.8% 8	50.0% 2	32.0% 118
	22.4% 34	32.1% 60	34.6% 9	25.0% 1	28.2% 104
	5.9% 9	7.5% 14	7.7% 2	0.0% 0	6.8% 25
Not at all close	6.6% 10	4.3% 8	7.7% 2	0.0% 0	5.4% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 152	100.0% 187	100.0% 26	100.0% 4	369

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Very close	29.9% 23	20.8% 22	28.9% 50	30.0% 3	26.8% 98
	26.0% 20	35.8% 38	33.5% 58	20.0% 2	32.2% 118
	32.5% 25	28.3% 30	27.2% 47	30.0% 3	28.7% 105
	9.1% 7	5.7% 6	6.4% 11	10.0% 1	6.8% 25
Not at all close	2.6% 2	9.4% 10	4.0% 7	10.0% 1	5.5% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 77	100.0% 106	100.0% 173	100.0% 10	366

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Very close	24.1% 65	39.1% 36	33.3% 1	27.9% 102
	31.1% 84	33.7% 31	33.3% 1	31.8% 116
	30.7% 83	20.7% 19	33.3% 1	28.2% 103
	7.4% 20	4.3% 4	0.0% 0	6.6% 24
Not at all close	6.7% 18	2.2% 2	0.0% 0	5.5% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 270	100.0% 92	100.0% 3	365

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Very close	28.6% 98	20.8% 5	0.0% 0	27.7% 103
	31.8% 109	37.5% 9	20.0% 1	32.0% 119
	28.3% 97	25.0% 6	40.0% 2	28.2% 105
	6.1% 21	12.5% 3	20.0% 1	6.7% 25
Not at all close	5.2% 18	4.2% 1	20.0% 1	5.4% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 343	100.0% 24	100.0% 5	372