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"Over 300,000 worshipers in over 2,000 congregations across America participated in the U.S. Congregational Life Survey--making it the largest survey of worshipers in America ever conducted. Three types of surveys were completed in each participating congregation: (a) an attendee survey completed by all worshipers age 15 and older who attended worship services during the weekend of April 29, 2001; (b) a Congregational Profile describing the congregation's facilities, staff, programs, and worship services completed by one person in the congregation; and (c) a Leader Survey completed by the pastor, priest, minister, rabbi, or other leader. Together the information collected provides a unique three-dimensional look at religious life in America." (From Appendix 1, A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations: Who's Going Where and Why. U.S. Congregational Life Survey Methodology.) This data file contains data for Church of the Nazarene Leaders from the random sample of Church of the Nazarene congregations. The Congregational Life Survey also has a Congregational profile for Church of the Nazarene congregations and an Attender survey of all Church of the Nazarene worshipers.
"The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago identified a random sample of U.S. congregations attended by individuals who participated in the General Social Survey (GSS) in the year 2000. All GSS participants who reported that they attended worship at least once in the prior year were asked to name the place where they worshiped. Since the GSS involves a national random sample of individuals, congregations identified by GSS participants comprise a national random sample of congregations. NORC researchers verified that each nominated congregation was an actual congregation and then invited each congregation to participate in the project."
"Denominations were also invited and encouraged to draw a random sample of their congregations. Denominational samples were large enough so that the results are representative of worshipers and congregations in each denomination. This allows denominations to compare their typical congregation and worshiper to congregations and worshipers in other denominations. Denominations participating in this oversampling procedure were: Church of the Nazarene, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Roman Catholic Church, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church (UMC), and United Church of Christ (UCC)." (From Appendix 1, A Field Guide to U.S. Congregations: Who's Going Where and Why. U.S. Congregational Life Survey Methodology.)
The sampling universe for the Church of the Nazarene was all Nazarene churches in the United States with between 25 and 500 persons in average worship attendance. From this universe, a random sample of 498 congregations was invited to participate. 160 agreed to participate and 109 returned the completed attender forms.
The response rate for the Church of the Nazarene church leader sample was 66.88 percent of congregations that agreed to participate.
The Church of the Nazarene leader data can be linked to the Nazarene Profile and Attender data by the ID variable. Note: The ID variable in the Leader survey is the same variable as the CONGREGA variable in the Attender and Profile surveys.
Keith Wulff, Coordinator of Research Services, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), co-principal investigator
Deborah Bruce, Associate Research Manager, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), project manager
Ida Smith-Williams, Associate for Information, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), data management specialist
Kenneth Crow, Church of the Nazarene, coordinated the congregational sampling and recruiting of congregations for the Church of the Nazarene oversample.
Crow, Kenneth, Richard Houseal, and Dale E. Jones. Fall 2003. How do pastors use their time? GROW Magazine.
Crow, Kenneth, Richard Houseal, and Dale E. Jones. Winter 2003. Is the commitment and satisfaction survey accurate for Nazarene Pastors? GROW Magazine.
Category labels for Q4 or DENOM121, DENOM122 0 None 15 Baptist 24 Free Will Baptist 37 Southern Baptist 45 Brethen 48 Church of the Brethren 55 Christian & Missionary Alliances 64 Church of Christ Holiness 69 Anderson Church of God 76 Church of God Holiness 79 Church of the Nazarene 91 Episcopal Church 97 Evangelical Free Church of America 99 Friends-Quakers 105 Independents Fundamental Churches 118 Lutheran 123 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 127 Protestant Conference-Lutheran 145 Methodist 150 Free Methodist Church of North America 155 United Methodist Church 185 Pentecostal 186 Assemblies of God 197 Presbyterian 204 Presbyterian Church USA 213 Roman Catholic Church 224 United Church of Christ 228 Wesleyan Church 999 Unknown - Not Sure Category labels for Q27 or DEGREE 44 Eastern Baptist Theo Seminary 72 Asbury Theo Seminary 141 Nazarene Theo Seminary 269 Northwest Nazarene College 319 Eastern Nazarene College 355 Trevecca Nazarene College 401 Wheaton College Grad School of Theo 451 Colorado College 654 Southern Nazarene Univ 668 Olivet Nazarene Univ 710 Azusa Pacific Univ 1029 Midamerica Nazarene College 1502 Bethany Bible College 1649 Covington Theo Seminary 2031 Point Loma Nazarene College 9967 Midwest Christian College 9971 Kansas City College 9976 Hispanic Bible Seminary 9990 Union BC-Westfield 9991 Mt Vernon Nazarene College 9999 Unknown
