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The Parish Data Sheet

Our Data Sheet Reports are our least-detailed reports, ideal for those parishes just wanting to know the percentage who selected each response.

The process for conducting a survey with a Data Sheet Report consists of:
  • CARA and the parish work together to custom design a questionnaire of about 100 questions.
  • CARA provides the parish with copies of the questionnaire both electronically and as hardcopies. The parish produces enough copies of the questionnaire for all adults at the parish.
  • Typically, the parish distributes the questionnaire to all adults at the parish on a particular weekend and collects the completed surveys. For more information about the kinds of distribution and collection methods CARA recommends, please click here.
  • Within six weeks of receiving the surveys, CARA provides the parish with a Data Sheet Report, containing:
  1. Brief narrative describing survey methods
  2. Copy of the questionnaire showing the percentage that selected each response
  3. Instructions on how to interpret the findings
Charges: The base fee for a Parish Life Survey with a Data Sheet Report is $1,500. In addition, the parish is charged $1 per processed questionnaire. Translations of questionnaires into other languages and any transcriptions and/or analyses of open-ended questions are available for an extra fee.

Contact Melissa A. Cidade, M.A., Director of PASS
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..Parish Life Narrative Survey
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