Table 4.
Disaffiliation from Specific Denominations: GSS 1973–2012
| Religious Affiliation at age 16 | Affiliation/Disaffiliation
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| Consistently Affiliated | Other Religion in Adulthood | Disaffiliate | Total | |
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| Evangelical Protestant | 6,606 (76%) | 1,490 (17%) | 633 (7.2%) | 8,729 |
| Catholic | 7,937 (78%) | 1,349 (13%) | 953 (9.3%) | 10,239 |
| Mainline Protestant | 5,851 (70%) | 1,770 (21%) | 691 (8.3%) | 8,312 |
| High-Cost Groupa | 322 (70%) | 74 (16%) | 61 (13%) | 457 |
Notes: Religious affiliation determined by the scheme developed by Steensland et al. (2000). Percent of those raised in each religion in parentheses. Other religions refer to all other religious traditions besides the focal tradition and no religion.
a
Includes Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventists
Source: General Social Survey Samples 1973 – 2012.