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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Apr 24;68(12):2231–2239. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.036

Table 2.

Estimated net effects of congregational characteristics, culture, resources, resource mobilization, network ties, and covariates on the sponsorship of health-related programs.

Variable Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5
External ties
Collaborative Ties (No Collaborations)
No other Programs 0.48
Secular Collaboration 1.79 1.30
Religious Collaboration 1.98 2.08
Secular & Religious Collaboration 2.08 1.15
Network Ties
Member of Local Affiliation 1.38 1.11
Number of Outside Groups Sharing Space 1.03* 1.00
Resources & resource mobilization
Income (logged) 0.75** 0.74*
Number of Adults (logged) 1.54* 1.47
Staff 1.16 1.10
Volunteers 3.68** 4.83**
Number of Other Service Programs 1.23*** 1.16*
Number of Groups 0.99 1.00
Congregational characteristics
Congregation Leader
Post-Baccalaureate Degree 4.07*** 2.71**
Congregation Composition
>30% Poverty 0.66 0.64
>40% Elderly 1.65 1.94
Culture
Denomination (Catholic omitted)
Mainline Protestant 1.07 0.83
White Conservative Protestant 0.39* 0.80
Black Protestant 0.46* 1.00
Other Denomination 0.83 0.98
Context
>30% Poverty 0.42* 0.46*
Model Chi-square 17.99 63.48 23.90 18.68 90.09
AIC 757.26 719.09 743.74 782.89 699.37
R-Squared 0.07 0.12 0.08 0.04 0.18

Note: cell entries represent exponentiated logistic regression coefficients (odds-ratios).

Two tailed tests:

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

N = 1230.