Table 2.
Demographic Correlates of Religious Identification
| Stayed Christian (N = 455) | Left Christianity (N = 778) | Never Christian (N = 296) | ||
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| % [95% CI] | % [95% CI] | % [95% CI] | F | |
| Total sample (n = 1,529) | 27.3 [24.7, 26.1] | 49.5 [46.4, 52.7] | 23.2 [20.5, 26.1] | |
| Race/ethnicity | 7.44* | |||
| White†, (n = 968) | 22.3 [19.2, 25.7] | 52.4 [48.3, 56.4] | 25.4 [21.3, 29.3] | |
| Black (n = 226) | 46.5+ [38.9, 54.3] | 40.5+ [33.2, 48.3] | 13.0+ [8.7, 18.9] | |
| Latinx (n = 265) | 29.0 [23.0, 35.8] | 49.8 [42.6, 57.0] | 21.2 [15.7, 28.1] | |
| Other (n = 69) | 18.4 [9.7, 32.2] | 41.9 [27.9, 57.4] | 39.7 [26.6, 54.5] | |
| Gender Identity | 6.29* | |||
| Cisgender man† (n = 612) | 34.2 [29.8, 39.0] | 51.4 [46.5, 56.2] | 14.4 [11.2, 18.2] | |
| Cisgender woman (n = 651) | 25.9 [22.1, 30.2] | 48.4 [43.6, 53.2] | 25.6+ [21.5, 30.3] | |
| Transgender woman/ man (n = 128) | 29.0 [19.7, 40.5] | 38.9 [29.0, 49.7] | 32.1+ [22.8, 43.2] | |
| Gender nonbinary person (n = 138) | 9.6+ [4.9, 17.8] | 57.7 [47.1, 67.6] | 32.7+ [23.7, 43.3] | |
| Sexual Orientation | 7.18* | |||
| Gay/lesbian† (n = 822) | 36.4 [32.3, 40.6] | 47.4 [43.1, 51.7] | 16.3 [13.2, 19.9] | |
| Bisexual, pansexual, queer (n = 617) | 19.2† [15.7, 23.2] | 53.0 [48.2, 57.7] | 27.9† [23.7, 32.5] | |
| Other, asexual, anti-label (n = 44) | 23.0† [24.6, 30.1] | 50.2 [46.5, 52.9] | 26.9† [20.4, 25.9] | |
| Straight (n = 43) | 28.4 [14.2, 48.7] | 32.2 [18.3, 50.0] | 39.5† [22.4, 59.6] | |
| Education | 3.70* | |||
| High school or less† (n = 313) | 27.5 [22.7, 32.9] | 45.1 [39.3, 51.1] | 27.4 [22.4, 33.0] | |
| More than high school (n = 1,214) | 27.3 [24.4, 30.3] | 52.8 [49.5, 56.1] | 19.9† [17.3, 22.8] | |
| Region | 4.98* | |||
| All others† (n = 1, 019) | 24.4 [21.3, 27.8] | 50.1 [46.2, 54.0] | 25.5 [22.2, 29.2] | |
| American South (n = 508) | 33.1† [28.2, 38.3] | 48.4 [43.0, 53.9] | 18.6 [14.4, 23.5] | |
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | F | |
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| Age (18 – 60) | 35.0 (15.3)a | 30.5 (12.9)b | 27.7 (10.1)c | 22.81* |
Note: Other race/ethnicity = Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern/North African, and American Indian/Alaska Native; Straight consists of transgender respondents in addition to cisgender respondents who identify as heterosexual but also report varying levels of different-gender attraction;
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indicates that percentage of individuals in the given group differs significantly from the percentage of individuals in the reference group (denoted with †);
F value derived from Multinomial Logistic Regression; Estimates with differing subscripts within rows differ significantly at p < .05 based on multinomial logistic regression results;
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p < .05.