Table 3.
a Multilevel Estimates for Religion and Other Variables on Sexual Morality (i.e., Cohabitation, Premarital Sex) Using the ISSP
| Model 1 (baseline) | Model 2 (level 1 variables) | Model 3 (level 2 variables) | Model 4 (cross-level interaction) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | |
| Intercept | −0.04 | 0.07 | −0.18** | 0.05 | −0.18** | 0.06 | −0.18** | 0.06 |
| Individual-level Variables | ||||||||
| Attendance | 0.15*** | 0.01 | 0.15*** | 0.01 | 0.15*** | 0.01 | ||
| Religious importance | 0.22*** | 0.02 | 0.22*** | 0.02 | 0.22*** | 0.01 | ||
| Sex | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||
| Age | 0.01*** | 0.00 | 0.01*** | 0.00 | 0.01*** | 0.00 | ||
| Degree | −0.06*** | 0.01 | −0.06*** | 0.01 | −0.06*** | 0.01 | ||
| Married | 0.07*** | 0.02 | 0.07*** | 0.02 | 0.07*** | 0.02 | ||
| a Protestant | 0.15*** | 0.04 | 0.15*** | 0.04 | 0.15*** | 0.04 | ||
| None | 0.19*** | 0.02 | 0.19*** | 0.02 | 0.19*** | 0.02 | ||
| No answer | 0.15*** | 0.04 | 0.15*** | 0.04 | 0.15*** | 0.04 | ||
| Other | 0.34** | 0.09 | 0.34** | 0.09 | 0.34** | 0.09 | ||
| Orthodox | 0.10** | 0.03 | 0.10** | 0.03 | 0.10** | 0.03 | ||
| Country-level Variables | ||||||||
| Country Levels of Religiosity | 0.39** | 0.13 | 0.31* | 0.12 | ||||
| Religious Concentration | −0.69** | 0.20 | −0.70** | 0.20 | ||||
| Migration | −0.04 | 0.02 | −0.04 | 0.02 | ||||
| a Protestant | −0.01 | 0.07 | −0.03 | 0.07 | ||||
| Orthodox | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.09 | ||||
| Cross-level Interactions | ||||||||
| Attendance X Country Levels of Religiosity | −0.03 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Religion Important X Country Levels of Religiosity | 0.15*** | 0.04 | ||||||
| Variance Components | ||||||||
| Individual estimate, σ2 | 0.90 | 0.55 | 0.55 | 0.55 | ||||
| Attendance slope, τ11 | 0.0049*** | 0.0049*** | 0.0049*** | |||||
| Religious importance slope, τ22 | 0.0086*** | 0.0086*** | 0.0046*** | |||||
| Country intercept, τ00 | 0.14*** | 0.09*** | 0.06*** | 0.06*** | ||||
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Catholic is the comparison category.