May-Ellen Colón Collection

Collection

Identifier: Collection 221

Staff Only

Content Description

The May-Ellen Colon Collection consists of the raw data used by May-Ellen Colon in writing her PhD dissertation, entitled “Sabbath-keeping practices and factors related to these practices among Seventh-day Adventists in 51 countries.” A survey entitled “Sabbath Observance Exploratory Survey (SOES) was used to compile the data for Colon’s research. This collection includes a sample SOES as well as the study’s completed surveys. Surveys that were improperly filled out and could not contribute to the numerical data were categorized by colon as “excluded surveys.”

Due to time limitations, Colon’s research was restricted to only 5 divisions of the SDA Church. As of the processing date of this collection (2005), May-Ellen Colon is assistant director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries at the General Conference.

Dates

Dissertation awarded in 2003

Creator

Colón, May-Ellen (Netten), 1949- (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

All users of this collection are required to complete the “Application to Use Unpublished Records,” and to observe the regulations specified in the “Patron Agreement” and “Researcher’s Code of Conduct.” All records in this collection are open and available for research. Citation for this collection:

Box___, folder___, May-Ellen Colon Collection (coll 221), Center for Adventist Research, James White Library, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.

Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in three principal parts:

1. A sample of the Sabbath Observance Exploratory Survey (SOES)

2. Completed surveys,arranged alphabetically by division, and arranged alphabetically by country within each division

3. Printouts of subjective data; that is, comments that the survey takers were able to write in