Table 1.

Mean number of children ever born for Hispanic and non-Hispanic women 18 – 44, by religion

	Mean Children Ever Born		Total Number Expected		Percent Distribution
	Hispanic	Non-Hispanic	Hispanic	Non-Hispanic	Hispanic	Non-Hispanic
All women	1.75	1.35	2.60	2.23	100	100
Catholic	1.73	1.37	2.62	2.26	66.3	20.2
Born again Christian	1.89	2.05	2.84	2.61	6.1	1.5
Charismatic or Evangelical	1.49	1.12	2.42	2.35	2.2	0.5
Other Catholic	1.72	1.31	2.60	2.21	58.0	18.2
Protestant	1.81	1.45	2.66	2.33	21.3	58.0
Born again Christian	2.03	1.52	2.72	2.61	10.6	27.3
Charismatic or Evangelical	1.39	1.43	2.75	2.35	3.0	1.8
Other Protestant	1.70	1.38	2.55	2.21	7.7	28.8
Other religion	1.37	1.06	2.46	2.12	1.4	6.7
No religion	1.84	1.03	2.48	1.83	11.0	15.1
Number of women					1,438	5,367

Source: NSFG 2002