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Religion as a determinant of marital stability
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 385–404.
Published: 01 August 1993
.... Such capital may matter less in the ecumenical Protestant denominations because of their high levels of tolerance for other religious beliefs and practices. In addition, the dominance of mainline Protestantism in the American culture may result in widespread acquisition of its religious capital even among...
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Religious fundamentalism, socio-economic status, and fertility attitudes in the southern appalachians
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 540–548.
Published: 01 March 1965
... el comportamiento frente a la fecundidad. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los estudios sólo considera las diferencias de fecundidad entre los protestantes, los católicos y los judíos. Los esfuerzos orientados a diferenciar las actitudes y el comportamiento en materia de fecundidad según la importancia de...
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Religion and fertility in the United States: New patterns
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 199–214.
Published: 01 May 1992
... as having no religious affiliation. If she answered "something else," she was 202 Demography, Vol. 29, No.2, May 1992 asked to state the specific denomination or group. If she said "something else" and then named a Protestant denomination, she was classified as Protestant. For Protestants, our measure...
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Factors associated with religious and civil marriages
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 February 1972
... group, "Other", includes those marriages where the denomination of the officiant (chiefly military chaplains) was not indicated on the marriage certificate, as well as a small number of Eastern Orthodox and other religious denomina- tions. Couples married in Protestant ceremonies were found several...
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Standardization of pathways to adulthood? an analysis of Dutch cohorts born between 1850 and 1900
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 1013–1034.
Published: 01 November 2010
... condemned birth control, and late marriage and celibacy were considered the only means of population control. Among liberal Protestant denominations, on the other hand, the neo-Malthusian alternative was accepted much earlier. Particularly, Remonstrant and Mennonite groups were freethinkers as far as birth...
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U. S. population growth as an abstractly-perceived problem
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 53–60.
Published: 01 February 1970
... Church. Given the pre- sumed greater salience of the birth con- trol issue in the Catholic Church than in Protestant denominations, it is plaus- ible that Catholics with high achieve- ment values are more likely than Pro- testants with high achievement values to perceive number of children as a factor...
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The fertility of north American catholics: A comparative overview
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 174–187.
Published: 01 March 1966
... aún se haya incrementado. Los católicos canadienses tienen una fertilidad un poco mayor que la de los católicos de Estados Unidos. (2) Los católicos franco-canadienses manifiestan ahora un nivel de fertilidad similar al de sus vecinos anglo-protestantes. Esta relativamente baja fertilidad es el...
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The health of the clergy: A review of demographic literature
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Demography (1969) 6 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 February 1969
...- spectively. (Ratios for American and British priests in both age groups are computed by the authors from data fur- nished by Madigan and in Registrar General for England and Wales, 1957b, Table 3A-i.) Mortality differentials between Ro- man Catholic religious orders and be- tween Protestant denominations...
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Catholicism and marriage in the united states
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 373–384.
Published: 01 August 1993
... religion might be selected with decisions on marriage and divorce. The religious upbringing question in the GSS was "In what religion were you raised?" For Protestant respondents, a subsequent question on the specific denomination also was asked. In another set of estimates that are summarized later...
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Adolescent Contraceptive Method Choices
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 323–335.
Published: 01 August 1990
... condom choice. Such a question was not included in the questionnaire, and we expect that such information would not be reliably recalled retrospectively. 8 Our measure of fundamentalism is, however, basedon the name of the Protestant denomination rather than on actual beliefs. Since the nature...
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Sex Ratio at Birth: Values, Variance, and Some Determinants
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 February 1974
... four and one-half males for every nonmale, while Protestants and those with no religious denomination preferred, respectively, male ratios of 2.23 and 0.90. Data on religion must be interpreted cautiously, however, because of the uneven marginal values of the three sub-categories. Table 2 shows first...
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The determinants of early fertility decline in Texas
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 443–457.
Published: 01 August 1993
... ). Denomination and Fertility Decline: The Protestants and Catholics of Fredericksburg, Texas . Continuity and Change , 5 , 391 – 416 . 10.1017/S0268416000001053 Gutmann Myron P. , & Alter George ( 1993 ). Family Reconstitution as Event History Analysis . In David Sven Reher...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 895–920.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and Evangelical Protestantism ( Pew Research Center 2015 ). Thus, Christian ideology and religiosity may be relevant to the reproductive outcomes of millions of young adults, especially considering that most Christian denominations espouse “generally prohibitive sexual ideologies” ( Rostosky et al. 2003 :359...
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Fertility patterns among religious groups in Canada
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 May 1970
... size was smallest for women born around 1910, whose childbearing was concentrated in the 1930’s. With data from the 1961 census of Canada, trends in cohort marital fertility by religion are examined. The U pattern appears for both Protestants and Jews. For Catholics, a reversal in the downward trend...
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Religion and fertility: A replication
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 185–191.
Published: 01 May 1984
... of the woman was deter- mined at the time of interview. In the NSFG the question was, "Are you Prot- estant, Catholic, Jewish, or something else?" Respondents who answered "Protestant" or "other" were asked to name the specific denomination or group. The questions in the NFS were very similar. Table l...
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Ready, Willing, and Able? Impediments to the Onset of Marital Fertility Decline in the United States
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1657–1692.
Published: 18 October 2016
.../pietistic Protestant denominations fell over the course of the century (Finke and Stark 1992 ), but the decline was itself a function of lower fertility among liberal church members. The loss of religious vitality among liberal/pietistic churches relative to that of expanding evangelical churches could...
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In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1793–1815.
Published: 01 October 2021
... i g i o n , (1) where the numerator is the proportion of Catholics holding a given name, and the denominator is the sum of the proportion of Catholics holding a given name with the proportion of non-Catholics holding that same name. The Catholic Index ranges from 0 to 100, with 0...
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Factors Associated With Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Suicide Rates Across U.S. States, 1976–2000
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 591–614.
Published: 30 November 2012
... faiths are distinguished from Evangelical Protestantism because studies show that a greater prevalence of the former tends to increase the suicide rate while the latter exerts a protective effect (Pescosolido and Georgianna 1989 ). In this study, Mainline Protestant faiths include American Baptist...
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Patterns of Entry into Cohabitation and Marriage Among Mainland Puerto Rican Women
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 587–607.
Published: 01 November 1991
...-test. 602 Demography, Vol. 28, No.4, November 1991 pattern, we believe it is related to the religious affiliations of the non-Catholic women in the sample. Increasingly, non-Catholic Puerto Ricans are members of fundamentalist Protestant denominations that preach strict moral and behavioral standards...
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Contraceptive sterilization in the U. S.: 1965 and 1970
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 531–548.
Published: 01 November 1972
... is slightly higher among blacks (21 percent) than among whites (18 percent). In deriving the population "at risk" we have excluded from the denominator (a) couples who intend no more children and (b) couples who are sterile for non- contraceptive reasons. To the extent that couples in the latter category were...
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