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Church Distinctiveness
Description
Data show measures that differ among denominations of American Protestant and Catholic churches.
Usage
ex1715Format
A data frame with 18 observations on the following 6 variables.
- Denomination
a character vector indicating the church denomination
- Distinct
distinctiveness (strictness of discipline on a seven point scale)
- Attend
average percentage of weeks that individuals attended a church meeting (% weekly)
- NonChurch
average number of secular organisations to which members belong
- PctStrong
average percentage of members that describe themselves as being strong church members (%)
- AnnInc
average income of members (US
\$)
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
References
Iannaccone, L.R. (1994). Why Strict Churches Are Strong, American Journal of Sociology 99(5): 1180–1211.
Examples
str(ex1715)