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Religion among Teens: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Interpretation & Summary

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Demographic Characteristics and Religiosity

  • Do males or females report more frequent attendance of religious services?
  • Is religion more important to male or female teens?
  • Are Hispanics more or less likely to report never attending religious services than whites?
  • Which of the three racial groups is most likely to say religion is not important to them?

Parents and Religiosity

  • Are respondents whose parents have higher levels of education more or less likely to attend religious services frequently?
  • Are higher levels of parent education associated with higher importance of religion?
  • What percentage of respondents attends religious service weekly in households where a mother is present, but a father is not? How about when both parents are present?
  • How do you interpret the .20 value in the cell at the intersection of the "no mother present" row and the "father present" column?

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CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Religion among Teens: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. Doi:10.3886/teenreligion

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