In order to obtain random responses within households, interviewers asked to speak with the person eighteen years or older whose birthday was most recent. The sample used in the study was so large that the relatively small percentage of Americans who are Nazarenes are represented in a large enough number for analysis on their own. Those 385 respondents who identified themselves as Nazarene are the subject of this report. The socio-demographic questions which were asked of all respondents permit the construction of a portrait of the people who call themselves Nazarenes. The gender distribution of adult Nazarenes is almost precisely the same as the larger society.
Females are a slight majority in the population and among the Nazarenes.
While the proportion of adults who are 25 years old or younger is almost the same, the proportion over 65 years is only about half as large. Almost all respondents identified themselves as white. They are slightly more likely to be married. While they also appear to be slightly more likely than the larger society to be widowed or divorced, the statistical margin of error for a sample of 385 is larger than the difference observed in table 4. However, Nazarenes tend to have more households with only two people than the total population.