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Murnion, P., & Welch, M. R. (2020, May 4). Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life, Parishioners Sample, 1984.
Summary
The Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life attempts to describe Catholic parishes in the United States roughly twenty years after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Beyond the broad descriptive sample of all U.S. parishes, its contextual sampling design permits the scholar to examine both laity, and ordained and non-ordained leadership in various types of parishes. It yields data on participation and organizational involvement, styles of religiosity, church-related attitudes, civic involvement and sociopolitical attitudes, organizational designs and decision-making, and liturgical experience and satisfaction. This is the parishioner component within the series of studies.
"This comprehensive study was an attempt to understand contemporary parish life and the attitudes and behaviors of presumably the most active Catholics, namely, registered parishioners." (Leege and Welch 1989:143).
"Multiple-wave mail-outs of self-administered questionnaires yielded 2,667 responding parishioners (usable response rate of approximately 60%)" (Leege and Welch 1989:143-144).
Sampling Procedures
"A complex multistage, stratified sampling design was used to select non-Hispanic parishioners from thirty-six representative, non-Hispanic parishes across the United States...Because of vastly different styles of religiosity, language problems, and cultural differences among Hispanic groups, we took conscious steps to exclude Hispanic parishes and parishioners from the sample" (Leege and Welch 1989:143).
"Black parishioners were oversampled because we had reason to believe the response rate for this subpopulation might be intolerably low. To compensate for this procedure, we re-weighted the sample to correspond to the best estimates of regional and national proportions of black Catholics (estimates derived from Harfmann, 1985). Comparisons were then made between distributions on selected variables for the unweighted and weighted samples, but on no variables were there significant differences in parameters" (Leege and Welch 1989:144).
Principal Investigators
Phillip Murnion and Michael R. Welch
Related Publications
Leege, David C. and Michael R. Welch. 1989. "Religious Roots of Political Orientations: Variations Among American Catholic Parishioners," Journal of Politics 51:137-162.
Byers, Dave, ed. 1986. The Parish in Transition: Proceedings of a Conference on the American Catholic Parish. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference.
Castelli, Jim and Joseph Gremillion. 1987. The Emerging Parish: The Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life Since Vatican II. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Dolan, Jay P. 1987. The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 to the Present. New York: Paulist Press.
Dolan, Jay P., Scott Appleby, Patricia Byrne, and Debra Campbell. 1989. Transforming Parish Ministry: The Changing Roles of Catholic Clergy, Laity, and Women Religious. New York: Crossroad.
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