Table 3.

Religious coverage: MDICP respondents (2004), congregation and national leader interviews (2005–06)

	Catholic	Pente-costal	African Independent	Muslim	Mission Protestant	New Mission Protestant	Other a	Total
MRP National Leaders
Total	2	6	-b	9	11	10	10	48
	0.04	0.13		0.19	0.23	0.21	0.21
MRP Congregational Leaders
North	5	18	17	2	12	17	-	71
	0.07	0.25	0.24	0.03	0.17	0.24
Center	10	6	19	1	12	10	-	58
	0.17	0.10	0.33	0.02	0.21	0.17
South	7	9	5	19	17	8	-	65
	0.11	0.14	0.08	0.29	0.26	0.12
Total	22	33	41	22	41	35	-	194
	0.11	0.17	0.21	0.11	0.21	0.18
MDICP Respondents
North	126	126	279	6	337	153	3	1030
	0.12	0.12	0.27	0.01	0.33	0.15	0.00
Center	279	32	199	11	253	205	5	984
	0.28	0.03	0.20	0.01	0.26	0.21	0.01
South	136	44	24	735	77	44	1	1061
	0.13	0.04	0.02	0.69	0.07	0.04	0.00
Total	541	202	502	752	667	402	9	3075
	0.18	0.07	0.16	0.24	0.22	0.13	0.00

Notes: All numbers are frequency counts and row proportions.

^aThe other category represents those who represent interfaith and inter-denominational religious organizations (for national leaders), and those individuals who reported no religious affiliation (for MDICP respondents).

^bFor African Independent Churches, we were unable to identify the existence of any national level coordinating leaders. Combining the interviews with local leaders and our attempts to find such leaders, we believe this was not simply a failure to locate/recruit such leaders, but accurately reflects that these congregations do not have such positions, which is consistent with the organizational structure of AIC churches in Malawi.