Introduction

The following tables describe the number of respondents for each of the variables of age (Question 16), gender (Question 17), locality (Question 18), position in the church (Question 19), educational status (Question 20), whether or not the respondents were born into a Christian home (Question 21) and whether or not they have non-Christians living in their homes (Question 22).

Questions 16 through 22

Question 16

The numbers found in Table 75 are not reflective of the demographics of CCT churches in the North. People under the age of 15 were not encouraged to fill out a questionnaire, and many older people, especially in rural areas, found the exercise of filling out a questionnaire difficult.

Table 75
Frequency Distribution for Question 16
Age

	11-15	16-20	21-30	31-40	41-50	51-60	61-70	Over 70
Number	28	59	121	148	166	109	49	22
Valid %	4.0%	8.4%	17.2%	21.1%	23.6%	15.5%	7.0%	3.1%
N = 702

Other surveys of local churches that I have been involved in show figures similar to those in Table 76 for relative numbers of men and women. In terms of gender, the sample is thus likely to be reflective of the CCT's northern Thai churches.

Table 76
Frequency Distribution for Question 17
Gender

In terms of geographical location, as shown in Table 77, this sample is probably slanted slightly away from the rural churches, primarily because the students who participated in this study mostly took their samples from urban and suburban churches. Still, the rural sample is large enough to provide sufficient data on the views of rural church members. Tthe categories contained in this table are imprecise and offer mostly an indication of how the respondents themselves classify their place of residentce.

Table 77
Frequency Distribution for Question 18
Geographical Location of Respondent's Home

Question 19

This sample, as shown in Table 78, may be slightly weighted towards church leaders, although the very small number of pastors does reflect the fact that many CCT churches in northern Thailand do not have pastors. Again, however, the sample is more than sufficient to indicate the views of those in each category.

Table 78
Frequency Distribution for Question 19
Position in the Church

This sample, as shown in Table 79 is surely weighted towards those with a higher educational status, although it does have to be kept in mind that Protestants tend to be better educated than the general populace. The general trend of the population, as well, is towards better education. Yet again, the sample is more than sufficient for most of the educational status categories to indicate the views of those in each category.

Table 79
Frequency Distribution for Question 20
Educational Status

	None	1-3 Gr	4-6 Gr	7-9 Gr	10-12 Gr	Technical Cert.	Technical Degree	Bachelors & higher
Number	2	15	160	106	128	39	36	209
Valid %	0.3%	2.2%	23.0%	15.3%	18.4%	5.6%	5.2%	30.1%
N = 695

Question 21

The data obtained for this question, as shown in Table 80, is particularly interesting in terms of the relatively high number of those not born into Christian families. The figures presented in this table depend on the respondents' personal sense of what constitutes a Christian family. We can assume that different individuals born into a mixed family where the parents hold different faiths responded to this question differently, some saying they were born into a Christian family and some responding they were not. It likely that a perhaps sizeable proportion of those who stated they were not born into a Christian family were still raised as Christians by a Christian parent.

Table 80
Frequency Distribution for Question 21
Whether or Not Born into a Christian Family

Even more so than was the case for Question 21, above, the data obtained for Question 22, as shown in Table 81, suggests that questions concerning inter-faith relations and attitudes towards people of other faiths are immediate, virtually daily issues for slightly more than a third (34.1%) of the total sample. Most Christians live in close daily contact with people of other faiths, and the data contained in Table 81 is one indication of that fact.

Table 81
Frequency Distribution for Question 22
Whether or Not Living in a Home with People of Another Faith

	Living with People of Another Faith	Not Living with People of Another Faith
Number	241	465
Valid %	34.1%	65.9%
N = 706