Survey of American Catholic Priests, 1985

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REACHING (Weighted by WT)

There are many problems which face priests today. Would you indicate how important the following problems are to you on a day-to-day basis. -- Difficulty of really reaching people today.
  1) Great problem to me personally
  2) Somewhat of a problem
  3) Very little problem
  4) No problem at all

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage
Great problem to me personally 98 6.8% 6.8%
Somewhat of a problem 581 40.1% 46.9%
Very little problem 464 32% 78.9%
No problem at all 307 21.2% 100.1%
Missing 24 % %

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

26-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70 & over Missing TOTAL
Great problem to me personally 6.2%
21
7.5%
25
8.0%
29
6.4%
17
3.5%
5

1
6.7%
97
Somewhat of a problem 34.7%
118
38.6%
129
46.4%
168
45.7%
122
29.4%
42

2
40.0%
579
Very little problem 37.9%
129
33.5%
112
29.0%
105
30.0%
80
25.9%
37

0
32.0%
463
No problem at all 21.2%
72
20.4%
68
16.6%
60
18.0%
48
41.3%
59

0
21.2%
307
Missing 0 1 6 7 10 0 24
TOTAL 100.0%
340
100.0%
334
100.0%
362
100.0%
267
100.0%
143

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