National Congregations Study, Cumulative Dataset (1998, 2006-2007, 2012, and 2018-2019)

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BRANCH_18 Are any of the congregation's locations considered satellite or branches of a main congregation or campus? Remarks: In 2018-19, this item was asked only if congregations reported they were multisite (MULTISITE_1 = 1) and reported that services do not take place in the same building or campus (SAMEBLDG = 2 and thus MULTISITE_2 = 1).   1) Yes   2) No   3) [ARDA note: unknown code]

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Yes	86	63.7%	63.7%	-0.74
No	48	35.6%	99.3%	1.26
[ARDA note: unknown code]	1	.7%	100.0%	3.26

Variable Comparisons

Year Region Theology Political ideology Religion

Year (I-YEAR)

	1998	2006	2012	2018	TOTAL
Yes	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	63.7% 86	63.7% 86
No	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	35.6% 48	35.6% 48
[ARDA note: unknown code]	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.7% 1	0.7% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 0	100.0% 0	100.0% 0	100.0% 135	135

Region (I-REGION)

	New England or Mid-Atlantic	East North Central or West North Central	South Atlantic, East South Central, or West South Central	Mountain or Pacific	TOTAL
Yes	64.3% 9	52.0% 13	68.9% 42	62.9% 22	63.7% 86
No	35.7% 5	48.0% 12	29.5% 18	37.1% 13	35.6% 48
[ARDA note: unknown code]	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.7% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 14	100.0% 25	100.0% 61	100.0% 35	135

Theology (I-THEOLOGY)

	More conservative	Right in the middle	More liberal	TOTAL
Yes	62.7% 47	66.7% 32	75.0% 3	64.6% 82
No	37.3% 28	31.3% 15	25.0% 1	34.6% 44
[ARDA note: unknown code]	0.0% 0	2.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.8% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 75	100.0% 48	100.0% 4	127

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	More conservative	Right in the middle	More liberal	TOTAL
Yes	58.3% 35	73.2% 41	63.6% 7	65.4% 83
No	41.7% 25	25.0% 14	36.4% 4	33.9% 43
[ARDA note: unknown code]	0.0% 0	1.8% 1	0.0% 0	0.8% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 60	100.0% 56	100.0% 11	127

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Roman Catholic	White conservative, evangelical, or fundamentalist	Black Protestant	White liberal or moderate	Non-Christian	TOTAL
Yes	42.9% 12	71.4% 50	40.0% 6	85.7% 12	75.0% 6	63.7% 86
No	53.6% 15	28.6% 20	60.0% 9	14.3% 2	25.0% 2	35.6% 48
[ARDA note: unknown code]	3.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 28	100.0% 70	100.0% 15	100.0% 14	100.0% 8	135