Table 2.
Association of Demographic Characteristics with Denominational Affiliation and Religious Involvement for Participants in the REACH 2010 Survey
| None | Catholic | Evangelical | Mainline Protestant |
Other | Religious Involvement |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = | 476 | 164 | 1718 | 532 | 124 | 3014 | |
| Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Mean | S.D | |
| Gender* ξ | |||||||
| Male | 60.5 | 48.8 | 40.7 | 45.3 | 49.2 | 10.6 | 2.6 |
| Female | 39.5 | 51.2 | 59.3 | 54.7 | 50.8 | 11.3 | 2.2 |
| Race/Ethnicity* ξ | |||||||
| White | 53.4 | 66.5 | 25.3 | 51.9 | 29.0 | 10.2 | 2.7 |
| Black | 46.6 | 33.5 | 74.7 | 48.1 | 71.0 | 11.5 | 2.1 |
| Income* | |||||||
| <$15k | 11.3 | 5.5 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 11.3 | 11.0 | 2.4 |
| $15–25k | 19.7 | 11.0 | 23.1 | 23.1 | 15.3 | 11.1 | 2.3 |
| $25–50k | 29.8 | 28.7 | 26.8 | 26.8 | 38.7 | 11.0 | 2.4 |
| >$50k | 15.5 | 38.4 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 15.3 | 11.0 | 2.5 |
| Unknown | 23.5 | 16.5 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 19.4 | 10.9 | 2.5 |
| Education* ξ | |||||||
| <HS | 18.5 | 3.7 | 23.0 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 10.9 | 2.3 |
| HS oe GED | 30.3 | 17.7 | 32.5 | 23.5 | 32.8 | 11.0 | 2.3 |
| Some college | 20.4 | 33.5 | 22.1 | 23.7 | 34.4 | 11.2 | 2.3 |
| College grad | 28.4 | 45.1 | 21.9 | 41.7 | 20.8 | 11.0 | 2.7 |
| Unknown | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 7.6 | 3.9 |
| Employment* ξ | |||||||
| Employed | 66.5 | 67.7 | 53.7 | 52.3 | 63.7 | 10.8 | 2.5 |
| Unemployed | 2.5 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 10.5 | 2.7 |
| Homemaker | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 4.8 | 11.1 | 2.5 |
| Student | 4.6 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 4.8 | 10.2 | 2.7 |
| Retired | 15.5 | 15.9 | 29.7 | 38.0 | 19.4 | 11.5 | 2.2 |
| Disabled | 5.9 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 11.0 | 2.4 |
| Unknown | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 8.8 | 2.5 |
| Age* ξ | |||||||
| 18–24 | 11.8 | 7.3 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 10.5 | 2.4 |
| 24–39 | 20.4 | 18.3 | 11.8 | 7.9 | 15.4 | 10.5 | 2.7 |
| 35–44 | 19.6 | 15.2 | 16.6 | 13.7 | 19.5 | 10.7 | 2.4 |
| 54–54 | 16.2 | 26.8 | 19.0 | 14.5 | 24.4 | 11.0 | 2.5 |
| 55–64 | 13.5 | 11.6 | 16.0 | 17.9 | 9.8 | 11.2 | 2.3 |
| 65–74 | 15.4 | 19.5 | 29.3 | 40.5 | 22.8 | 11.4 | 2.1 |
| 75+ | 3.2 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 10.3 | 3.5 |
Association with denomination based on Pearson Chi-square test: p < 0.0001;
Association with Religious Involvement Pearson Chi-square test: p < 0.0001