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Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2011 Sep 10;90(1):181–208. doi: 10.1093/sf/90.1.181

Table 6.

Odds Ratios From Logit Regression Models Predicting No Longer Believes Only One Religion Is True

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Ever attended four-year college, W3	.86	.89	1.11
Closeness to mother, W3		1.13	1.25
Closeness to father, W3		.89	.91
Lives in another person’s home, W3		1.03	.72
Lives in own place, W3		1.33	.79
Lives in group quarters, W3		.75	.63
Percentage of friends who share religious beliefs, W3		.99^*	.99^†
Religious service attendance, W3			.62^***
Female, W1	1.58^†	1.53^†	1.45
Lived in Northeast, W1	.69	.66	.53^†
Lived in Midwest, W1	.82	.90	.84
Lived in West, W1	.54^†	.54^†	.48^†
Age, W3	.86^†	.83^†	.79^*
Black, W1	.24^*	.24^*	.16^**
Hispanic, W1	.73	.78	.77
Asian, W1	1.63	1.82	2.77
Other/Indeterminable race, W1	.22^*	.23^*	.17^**
Mother had college degree, W1	1.00	1.05	1.22
Parents not broken up, W1	.57^*	.60^†	.81
Religious service attendance, W1	.98	.98	1.13
Importance of religion, W1	.66^**	.66^**	.78
Mainline Protestant, W1	3.61^**	3.39^**	2.84^**
Black Protestant, W1	4.74^**	5.27^**	6.70^**
Catholic, W1	6.85^***	7.38^***	8.06^***
Jewish, W1	–––	–––	–––
Mormon, W1	.98	.99	1.58
No religion, W1	12.09^*	12.71^*	14.94^**
Other religion, W1	1.95	2.08	3.35
Ever married, W3	.47^†	.44^†	.62
Has child living with them, W3	.94	.94	1.50
Closeness to mother, W1	.93	.89	.87
Closeness to father, W1	.93	1.03	1.02
Proportion of friends who share religious beliefs, W1	.99^**	.99^*	.99^*
N	623	623	623

^***

p < .001

^**

p < .01

p < .05

^†

p < .10

Models also contain a control for indeterminable religious tradition at Wave 1 and mother and father absence at Waves 1 and 3. Reference categories are living with parents, lived in South, White, and conservative Protestant.