Table 3.

Comparison of religion variables in the biopsychosocial religion and health study and the general social survey by ethnicity and gender

	BRHS				GSS
	Black		White		Black		White
	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
Church Attendance
Male
Never	0.3	3	0.5	12	20.5	32	27.6	298
A few times a year or less	1.7	15	3.8	84	30.8	48	33.6	363
Monthly or several times a month	3.2	29	6.2	138	18.6	29	12.9	139
Weekly or more often	94.8	860	89.5	1987	30.1	47	25.9	280
Female
Never	0.1	3	0.6	23	12.3	30	22.1	286
A few times a year or less	1.5	39	4.3	168	12.7	31	32.2	417
Monthly or several times a month	4.7	119	6.1	237	23.4	57	13.2	171
Weekly or more often	93.6	2372	88.9	3441	51.6	126	32.5	420
Prayer frequency
Male
Several times a day	56.7	513	51.5	1138	38.1	40	21.4	155
Once a day	20.3	184	23.6	520	33.3	35	25.7	186
Several times a week	15.4	139	16.1	356	6.7	7	12.6	91
Once a week	2.9	26	2.2	48	5.7	6	6.8	49
<Once a week	3.8	34	5.9	130	8.6	9	16.7	121
Never	1.0	9	0.7	16	7.6	8	16.9	122
Female
Several times a day	66.1	1663	60.2	2313	64.4	116	39.6	364
Once a day	18.0	453	22.5	863	25.0	45	30.4	280
Several times a week	11.7	294	13.2	508	7.2	13	11.0	101
Once a week	1.4	35	1.2	46	2.2	4	5.8	53
<Once a week	2.5	64	2.6	101	0.6	1	8.3	76
Never	0.2	6	0.3	12	0.6	1	5.0	46

Notes: All GSS versus BRHS comparisons on church attendance and prayer frequency within genders are statistically significant except for prayer in Black females.