New Parish Ministers Survey of Lay and Religious, 1992

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CLOSE8 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 parish where you worked in a paid capacity five years ago?   1) Very close   2)   3)   4)   5) Not at all close

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very close	86	36.6%	36.6%	-.97
	79	33.6%	70.2%	-.1
	39	16.6%	86.8%	.76
	18	7.7%	94.5%	1.63
Not at all close	13	5.5%	100%	2.5

Variable Comparisons

Gender Year of birth Race Marital status Education Status Baptized?

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Very close	37.6% 70	32.7% 16	36.6% 86
	34.9% 65	28.6% 14	33.6% 79
	15.1% 28	22.4% 11	16.6% 39
	7.0% 13	10.2% 5	7.7% 18
Not at all close	5.4% 10	6.1% 3	5.5% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 186	100.0% 49	235

Year of birth (I-BORN)

	1916-1930	1931-1940	1941-1950	1951-1960	1961-1975	TOTAL
Very close	46.7% 7	45.1% 23	36.3% 29	32.9% 23	17.6% 3	36.5% 85
	26.7% 4	33.3% 17	35.0% 28	35.7% 25	29.4% 5	33.9% 79
	20.0% 3	15.7% 8	13.8% 11	17.1% 12	23.5% 4	16.3% 38
	6.7% 1	2.0% 1	7.5% 6	7.1% 5	29.4% 5	7.7% 18
Not at all close	0.0% 0	3.9% 2	7.5% 6	7.1% 5	0.0% 0	5.6% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 15	100.0% 51	100.0% 80	100.0% 70	100.0% 17	233

Race (I-RACE)

	Euro-Amer	NonEuroAmr	TOTAL
Very close	34.6% 75	53.3% 8	35.8% 83
	35.0% 76	20.0% 3	34.1% 79
	16.6% 36	20.0% 3	16.8% 39
	8.3% 18	0.0% 0	7.8% 18
Not at all close	5.5% 12	6.7% 1	5.6% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 217	100.0% 15	232

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Never marr	Married	Div/sep	Widowed	TOTAL
Very close	31.6% 31	41.1% 46	25.0% 5	66.7% 2	36.1% 84
	36.7% 36	31.3% 35	35.0% 7	33.3% 1	33.9% 79
	18.4% 18	16.1% 18	15.0% 3	0.0% 0	16.7% 39
	9.2% 9	5.4% 6	15.0% 3	0.0% 0	7.7% 18
Not at all close	4.1% 4	6.3% 7	10.0% 2	0.0% 0	5.6% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 98	100.0% 112	100.0% 20	100.0% 3	233

Education (I-EDUC)

		College	MA/MDiv	DMin/PhD	TOTAL
Very close	45.2% 19	29.8% 17	38.6% 49	0.0% 0	36.6% 85
	26.2% 11	36.8% 21	33.9% 43	33.3% 2	33.2% 77
	14.3% 6	12.3% 7	18.1% 23	50.0% 3	16.8% 39
	9.5% 4	10.5% 6	5.5% 7	16.7% 1	7.8% 18
Not at all close	4.8% 2	10.5% 6	3.9% 5	0.0% 0	5.6% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 57	100.0% 127	100.0% 6	232

Status (I-RELSTAT)

	Lay person	Religious sister	Religious brother	TOTAL
Very close	35.7% 60	39.3% 24	50.0% 1	36.8% 85
	30.4% 51	41.0% 25	50.0% 1	33.3% 77
	17.9% 30	13.1% 8	0.0% 0	16.5% 38
	8.9% 15	4.9% 3	0.0% 0	7.8% 18
Not at all close	7.1% 12	1.6% 1	0.0% 0	5.6% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 168	100.0% 61	100.0% 2	231

Baptized? (I-BAPTISM)

	RC as kid	RC adult	Other Chr	TOTAL
Very close	37.0% 81	28.6% 4	50.0% 1	36.6% 86
	33.3% 73	35.7% 5	50.0% 1	33.6% 79
	17.4% 38	7.1% 1	0.0% 0	16.6% 39
	6.4% 14	28.6% 4	0.0% 0	7.7% 18
Not at all close	5.9% 13	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	5.5% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 219	100.0% 14	100.0% 2	235