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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Q. 2008 Oct 14;49(4):617–652. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2008.00130.x

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***
+

<.1

*

<.05

**

<.01

***

<.001

a

Catholic is the comparison category.