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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: Gend Soc. 2015 Nov 17;29(6):982–1008. doi: 10.1177/0891243215602106

TABLE 4.

Logistic Regressions Predicting the Likelihood of the Congregation Leader Having Received Some Formal Religious Training (A) and Holding a Higher-Ranking Post in Church (B and C), Parameter Estimates and Standard Errors, Chibuto Congregation Census

Covariate A. Leader Received Some Formal Religious Training
B. Leader Is in Higher-Ranking Posta
C. Leader Is in Higher-Ranking Posta
Coef. SE Coef. SE Coef. SE
Gender of congregation leader
 Woman −0.338 0.213 −0.343* 0.146 −0.323* 0.147
 [Man]
Denominational category
 Catholic −0.200 0.327 n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Apostolic −2.022** 0.488 −0.322 0.267 −0.175 0.271
 Zionist −0.787** 0.242 0.337+ 0.182 0.418+ 0.186
 Pentecostal −0.698* 0.289 −0.224 0.215 −0.163 0.218
 [Traditional Protestant]
Area of congregation location
 Urban 0.045 0.233 0.554** 0.172 0.555** 0.173
 [Rural]
Number of people attending last regular service 0.022** 0.004 0.018** 0.004 0.016** 0.004
Women-to-men ratio among last service attendees −0.005 0.009 0.007+ 0.004 0.008+ 0.004
Type of congregation facility
 Precarious facility (no or reed/grass roof) 0.617** 0.224 0.178 0.143 0.135 0.144
 Sturdy facility (tile or metal sheet roof) 0.619* 0.275 0.313 0.203 0.284 0.205
 [No permanent facility]
Leader’s formal religious training
 Received some training n/a n/a 0.807** 0.217
 [Received no training]
Constant −2.181** 0.276 −0.621** 0.205 −0.726** 0.209
Likelihood ratio chi-square 90** 74** 88**
Number of congregations 1118 1026 1026

NOTE: Reference categories in brackets; significance level:

**

p < .01,

*

p < .05,

p < .1, two-tailed test. Coef. = coefficient.

a

Catholics are excluded.