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Tracking Faith: A Statistical Analysis Of The Spiritual Profiles Of Chicago And Dallas-Ft.Worth Over The Last 15 Years, Kaitlyn Fitzgerald

Honors Program Projects

This project explored the question of whether the spiritual profiles of the Chicago and Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW) markets have changed significantly over the last 15 years and if those spiritual profiles differ significantly from each other. The Barna Group is a market research firm that has tracked the role of faith in America for over 30 years. This project was the extension of work done during an internship with the Barna Group in Summer 2014, and their extensive database was made available for this research. Regression analysis and test of hypotheses for population proportion comparison were performed on the responses …