Table 1.
| Structural characteristics of parishes by participation status (n = 49)
| Organizational characteristics | CRUZA participants (n = 31) | Nonparticipants (n = 18) | p-Value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Median | Mean | SD (range) | N | Median | Mean | SD (range) | ||
| Resources | |||||||||
| Congregation size | 30 | 1750 | 2299.4 | 1944.2 (60–7741) | 12 | 675 | 1321.9 | 1324 (70–4000) | .50 |
| Percent of congregation that is Latino | 29 | 40.0% | 43.4% | 28.9% (1.3%–100%) | 8 | 47.7% | 53.5% | 33% (11.5%–100%) | .70 |
| Years of Spanish mass offered | 30 | 15.5 | 20 | 14.6 (2–62) | 16 | 20 | 18.8 | 11.6 (3–43) | .31 |
| Number of weekly Spanish masses | 31 | 2 | 2.7 | 2.3 (1–11) | 17 | 2 | 2.8 | 2.9 (1–10) | .29 |
| Leadership and staff | |||||||||
| Full-time paid pastoral staff | 30 | 4 | 6.2 | 8.1 (0–44) | 13 | 2 | 4.7 | 9.3 (0–35) | .59 |
| % Latino | 29 | 25% | 26.4% | 27.0 (0%–100%) | 11 | 0% | 21.6% | 27.3% (0%–66.7%) | .74 |
| Part-time paid pastoral staff | 29 | 1 | 3.7 | 4.3 (0–16) | 12 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 3.0 (0–9) | .50 |
| % Latino | 21 | 20% | 34.0% | 38.5% (0%–100%) | 6 | 52.2% | 47.4% | 41.2% (0%–100%) | .34 |
| Full-time paid administrative staff | 31 | 1 | 1.6 | 1.6 (0–6) | 13 | 2 | 2.5 | 1.7 (0–6) | .46 |
| % Latino | 22 | 0% | 12.1% | 19.9% (0%–50%) | 11 | 0% | 23.5% | 36.3 (0%–100%) | .24 |
| Part-time paid administrative staff | 31 | 1 | 1.7 | 2.2 (0–10) | 13 | 2 | 2.4 | 2.4 (0–9) | .34 |
| % Latino | 19 | 0% | 33.0% | 40.8% (0%–100%) | 10 | 0% | 35.0% | 47.4% (0%–100%) | .74 |
| Total full-time staff | 31 | 6 | 7.6 | 8.3 (0–44) | 13 | 5 | 7.2 | 9.4 (1–37) | .85 |
| Number of Latino priests | 29 | – | 4 (13.8%) | – | 17 | – | 3 (17.6%) | – | .73 |
| Percent of priests with grad degree | 30 | – | 50.0% | – | 16 | – | 69.4% | – | .25 |
Significance determined by chi-square tests.