Sisters' Survey Retest, 1968: This is a survey instrument made available to the orders to allow them to test their progress since the 1967 survey - 2 folders with drafts of questionnaire, card layouts for key punching, results from one province. 2 folders. RESTRICTED.

This is a survey instrument developed in a summer advanced research institute and made available to all the orders. Its purpose is to assess the publics which are served by the religious orders.

• CNEA 17 Subseries : Development of instrument

  Correspondence related to the summer institute; reading lists; drafts of questionnaire; pretests.

• CNEA 17-19 Subseries : Completed questionnaires, Boston area

  Completed questionnaires from the Boston area.

Contemplative Order Survey, 1968: This was an attitude survey of contemplative orders using an adaptation of the 1967 Sisters' Survey instrument.

• CNEA 19 Subseries : Reports to Congregations

  Reports of national frequencies; reports to individual congregations. RESTRICTED.

• CNEA 91-96 Subseries : Printouts - Frequencies, Crosstabs

  Computer printouts with frequencies, crosstabulations. RESTRICTED.

Content Analysis of Chapter Decrees, 1973: Decrees from renewal chapters mandated by a 1966 Motu Proprio were collected and analyzed.

• CNEA 20 Subseries : Development of categories

  2 folders with drafts of coding instructions, correspondence with coders, computer card layout for analysis of chapter decrees.

• CNEA 20-32 Subseries : Chapter decrees (occasionally including a report of the analysis)

  Chapter decrees and related material from individual congregations, often including reports of analysis.

• CNEA 33-34 Subseries : Other chapter decrees, rules, constitutions collected by Sr Neal

  Chapter decrees, rules, constitutions collected by Sr Neal. NB: Similar material, also collected by Sr Neal, can be found in PLCW 1-7.

Twenty orders were selected for re-evaluation based upon their scores on a measure of belief used in the original Sisters' Survey. Ten other orders participated voluntarily in the update.

• CNEA 34-35 Subseries : Development, processing and analysis

  Drafts of questionnaire; review of research using 1967 data; instructions for analyzing chapter decrees; 1967 data for participating orders; charts, graphs, transparencies with 1979-80 Sister Survey results. RESTRICTED.

• CNEA 35-36 Subseries : Reports to participating orders

  RESTRICTED.

• CNEA 36-37 Subseries : Further Analysis

  Descriptions and explanations of scales; papers and essays by Sr Neal based on 1979-80 results.

  • CNEA 36-37 Scales
  • CNEA 37 Sr Neal Papers based on survey
• 97-101 Subseries : Printouts- Freqs, Crosstabs, Enterprise

  Computer Printouts with frequencies and crosstabs for national data and by order. RESTRICTED.

This was an update of the 1966 Congregational Survey, using approximately the same questionnaire.

• CNEA 37 Subseries : Development and analysis

  Correspondence with LCWR re 1982 survey; codebook; lists of participants; tables, transparencies with national frequencies.

• CNEA 37-39 Subseries : Completed questionnaires

  RESTRICTED.

This was the final update of the 1967 Sisters' Survey, using a random sample of sisters' drawn from a national list.

• CNEA 39 Subseries : Analysis and Reports - National

  Report on national data giving frequencies and interpretation.

• CNEA 39-40 Subseries : Correspondence, reports - Orders using instrument for self-study