Table 1.

Descriptive overview of religious congregation characteristics (MRP, 2005)

	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
District
Balaka (south)	0.39		0	1
Mchinji (center)	0.29		0	1
Rumphi (north)	0.37		0	1
Denomination
Catholic	0.11		0	1
Pentecostal	0.17		0	1
African Independent	0.20		0	1
Muslim	0.12		0	1
Mission Protestant	0.21		0	1
New Mission Protestant	0.18		0	1
Congregational Demographics
Congregation Size	37.39	52.81	0	370
Congregation Age (in years)	22.12	19.79	1	91
Leader has at least Some Secondary Education	0.29	0.45	0	1
Leader has Some Religious Training	0.63	0.48	0	1
Network Ties
Helped by NGO	0.13	0.34	0	1
Ever Visited by Missionaries	0.37	0.48	0	1
Helped by Mission Work	0.24	0.43	0	1
Ever Visited by Denominational Leaders	0.65	0.48	0	1
Isolated Congregation a	0.23	0.42	0	1
AIDS
Leader has Attended AIDS Workshop	0.47	0.50	0	1
In this Congregation, AIDS is:
Not a Problem (0)	0.11		0	1
Somewhat of a Problem (1)	0.27		0	1
A Big Problem (2)	0.36		0	1
The Single Biggest Problem (3)	0.26		0	1
N=187

Note: All numbers in Column 1 are mean values.

^aCongregation has never been visited by any representatives of NGOs, their denomination or the government.