This survey of Calvary Chapel Downey participants was part of a large research grant from the Lilly Endowment to study rapidly growing non-mainline churches. Calvary Chapel Downey (Downey, CA) was one of four non-mainline churches surveyed.
- Data File
- Cases: 1,060
Variables: 144
Weight Variable: None - Data Collection
- Date Collected: May, 1993
- Funded By
- The Lilly Endowment, Inc.
- Collection Procedures
- Self-administered surveys
- Sampling Procedures
- Surveys were distributed on four consecutive Sunday services in 1993. Although Calvary Chapel Downey did not have a membership list, the principal investigators estimate (see Perrin, Kennedy and Miller, 1997) that between 50% and 60% of those regularly attending the church completed the survey.
- Principal Investigators
- Donald E. Miller
- Related Publications
- Miller, Donald E. (1997). Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Perrin, Robin D., Paul Kennedy and Donald E. Miller. (1997). "Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth: Where Are the New Evangelical Movements Getting their Numbers?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 36(1), 71-80.
