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Presbyterian Panel Survey, August 1998 - World Mission, Clergy

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The following is a pair of alternative words or phrases that might be used to describe the world mission. For this pair, choose only one answer (the first term, the second term, or a combination of both) that best fits your image of world mission as it is today - difficult to do/easy to do.

	1) Entirely difficult to do
	2) Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)
	3) More difficult to do than easy to do
	4) Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do
	5) More easy to do than difficult to do
	6) Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)
	7) Entirely easy to do

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Entirely difficult to do	46	4.5%	4.5%	-1.98
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	265	26%	30.5%	-1.04
More difficult to do than easy to do	339	33.2%	63.7%	-.11
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	289	28.3%	92.1%	.83
More easy to do than difficult to do	62	6.1%	98.1%	1.77
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	17	1.7%	99.8%	2.71
Entirely easy to do	2	.2%	100%	3.65

Variable Comparisons

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	5.2% 10	4.4% 36	4.5% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	22.8% 44	26.7% 220	25.9% 264
More difficult to do than easy to do	30.1% 58	33.9% 280	33.2% 338
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	32.1% 62	27.5% 227	28.4% 289
More easy to do than difficult to do	7.3% 14	5.8% 48	6.1% 62
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	2.1% 4	1.6% 13	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.5% 1	0.1% 1	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 193	100.0% 825	1018

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Not married	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	4.1% 37	7.3% 9	4.5% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	26.7% 238	21.0% 26	26.0% 264
More difficult to do than easy to do	32.9% 294	34.7% 43	33.1% 337
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	27.9% 249	32.3% 40	28.4% 289
More easy to do than difficult to do	6.4% 57	4.0% 5	6.1% 62
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	1.8% 16	0.8% 1	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 893	100.0% 124	1017

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	3.8% 7	3.1% 9	5.8% 22	4.9% 8	4.5% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	26.4% 48	23.0% 67	27.9% 106	25.8% 42	25.9% 263
More difficult to do than easy to do	35.7% 65	34.4% 100	31.1% 118	33.7% 55	33.3% 338
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	29.7% 54	27.5% 80	28.2% 107	28.8% 47	28.3% 288
More easy to do than difficult to do	2.7% 5	10.3% 30	5.5% 21	3.7% 6	6.1% 62
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	1.1% 2	1.4% 4	1.6% 6	3.1% 5	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.5% 1	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 182	100.0% 291	100.0% 380	100.0% 163	1016

Political party (I-POLITAFF)

	Democrat	Independent	Republican	Other	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	3.8% 23	7.1% 12	4.4% 10	10.0% 1	4.6% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	27.5% 166	21.3% 36	26.4% 60	10.0% 1	26.0% 263
More difficult to do than easy to do	33.4% 202	36.1% 61	31.3% 71	30.0% 3	33.4% 337
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	28.1% 170	26.0% 44	28.6% 65	50.0% 5	28.1% 284
More easy to do than difficult to do	5.6% 34	6.5% 11	7.5% 17	0.0% 0	6.1% 62
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	1.5% 9	2.4% 4	1.3% 3	0.0% 0	1.6% 16
Entirely easy to do	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 604	100.0% 169	100.0% 227	100.0% 10	1010

Family income (I-FAMINCOM)

	<20K	20K-49,999	50K-99,999	100K+	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	10.7% 3	4.2% 16	3.7% 19	8.2% 8	4.5% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	21.4% 6	25.6% 97	27.0% 137	22.4% 22	25.9% 262
More difficult to do than easy to do	35.7% 10	34.6% 131	32.9% 167	28.6% 28	33.2% 336
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	28.6% 8	27.2% 103	29.5% 150	27.6% 27	28.4% 288
More easy to do than difficult to do	3.6% 1	6.3% 24	5.9% 30	7.1% 7	6.1% 62
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	0.0% 0	2.1% 8	1.0% 5	4.1% 4	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.0% 2	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 28	100.0% 379	100.0% 508	100.0% 98	1013

Age (I-AGE)

	<40	40-49	50-64	65+	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	6.4% 9	3.7% 13	4.4% 19	6.7% 5	4.6% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	27.7% 39	26.6% 94	25.9% 112	22.7% 17	26.2% 262
More difficult to do than easy to do	35.5% 50	35.4% 125	29.6% 128	33.3% 25	32.8% 328
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	22.7% 32	26.6% 94	31.5% 136	30.7% 23	28.5% 285
More easy to do than difficult to do	5.0% 7	5.7% 20	6.9% 30	5.3% 4	6.1% 61
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	2.8% 4	1.4% 5	1.6% 7	1.3% 1	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.0% 0	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 141	100.0% 353	100.0% 432	100.0% 75	1001

Race (I-RACE1)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Entirely difficult to do	4.4% 43	14.3% 1	6.5% 2	4.5% 46
Mostly difficult to do (but a little easy to do)	26.6% 260	0.0% 0	12.9% 4	26.0% 264
More difficult to do than easy to do	33.5% 328	42.9% 3	19.4% 6	33.2% 337
Equal parts of difficult to do and easy to do	27.9% 273	42.9% 3	41.9% 13	28.4% 289
More easy to do than difficult to do	5.8% 57	0.0% 0	12.9% 4	6.0% 61
Mostly easy to do (but a little difficult to do)	1.5% 15	0.0% 0	6.5% 2	1.7% 17
Entirely easy to do	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 978	100.0% 7	100.0% 31	1016