. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Sci Study Relig. 2013 Mar 1;52(1):57–79. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12001

Table 6.

Mean values or proportions at each level for socio-demographic variables

	Full Sample	Abiders	Adapters	Assenters	Avoiders	Atheists
Gender
Female	.49	.55^s ^v ^t	.54^s ^v ^t	.49^b ^d ^v ^t	.41^b ^d ^s	.37^b ^d ^s
Male	.51	.45^s ^v ^t	.46^s ^v ^t	.51^b ^d ^v ^t	.59^b ^d ^s	.63^b ^d ^s
Age	15.03	15.0^t	15.0^t	15.0^v ^t	15.1^s ^t	15.5^b ^d ^s ^v
Race/Ethnicity
White/Caucasian	.66	.72^d ^v ^t	.40^b ^s ^v ^t	.65^d ^v ^t	.78^b ^d ^s	.80^b ^d ^s
African American	.16	.16^d ^s ^v ^t	.35^b ^s ^v ^t	.14^b ^d ^v ^t	.06^b ^d ^s	.02^b ^d ^s
Latino	.12	.08^d ^s	.17^b ^s	.15^b ^d	.10	.10
Other	.06	.03^v ^t	.08^b	.06	.06^b	.08^b
Religious affiliation
Evangelical Protestant	.41	.61^d ^s ^v ^t	.48^b ^v ^t	.41^b ^v ^t	.19^b ^d ^s	.08^b ^d ^s
Mainline Protestant	.11	.12^s	.09^s	.14^b ^d ^v ^t	.09^s	.05^b
Catholic	.27	.17^d ^s ^v ^t	.26^b ^s ^t	.36^b ^d ^v ^t	.30^b ^s ^t	.07^b ^d ^s ^v
Other religion	.08	.10^d ^s	.05^b ^v ^t	.05^b ^v ^t	.11^d ^s	.13^d ^s
Not affiliated	.12	.00^b ^s ^v ^t	.13^b ^s ^v ^t	.04^b ^d ^v ^t	.30^b ^d ^s ^t	.66^b ^d ^s ^v
Highest parent education
Less than high school	.07	.04^d ^s	.15^b ^s ^v ^t	.06^b ^d	.05^d	.05^d
High school diploma	.17	.14^d	.26^b ^s ^v ^t	.17^d	.14^d	.14^d
Some college	.34	.32	.37	.35	.34	.30
Bachelor’s degree	.20	.24^d	.14^b ^s ^t	.21^d	.20	.20^d
Graduate/professional school	.22	.27^d ^s	.08^b ^s ^v ^t	.21^b ^d ^v	.27^d ^s	.30^d
Family income
Less than 150% of poverty line	.23	17^d	40^b ^s ^v ^t	22^d	20^d	19^d
150% to 250% of poverty line	.20	.18^d	.25^b ^t	.20	.19	.15^d
350% to 4 times the poverty line	.24	.28^d ^s ^t	.19^b ^v ^s	.24^b ^d	.23^d	.14^b
Over 4 times the poverty line	.27	.30^d ^t	.10^b ^s ^v ^t	.27^d ^t	.32^d ^t	.48^b ^d ^s ^v
Missing income	.06	.06	.06	.07	.05	.04
Region
Northeast	.17	.11^d ^s ^v ^t	.15^b ^v	.18^b ^v	.22^b ^d ^s	.22^b
Midwest	.22	.20^s ^v	.19	.24^b	.25^b	.23
South	.37	.47^d ^s ^v ^t	.46^b ^v ^t	.36^b ^v ^t	.24^b ^d ^s	.14^b ^d ^s
West	.24	.23^v ^t	.19^v ^t	.22^v	.28^b ^d ^s	.40^b ^d ^s
Percentage rural in county	.24	.27^d ^s ^v ^t	.24^b ^t	.23^b ^t	.22^b	.16^b ^d ^s

Source: National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 1, 2002

statistically significant difference from ABIDERS at the p < .05 level

statistically significant difference from ADAPTERS at the p < .05 level

statistically significant difference from ASSENTERS at the p < .05 level

statistically significant difference from AVOIDERS at the p < .05 level

statistically significant difference from ATHEISTS at the p < .05 level