. 2016 Jan 28;32(2):231–265. doi: 10.1007/s10680-015-9371-z

Table 1.

OLS regression results: children ever born for women aged 40–79 in Britain, France and the Netherlands

	Britain		France		The Netherlands
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Religious group^a
No religion	Ref	Ref	−0.159	−0.078	Ref	Ref
Nominal Catholic	0.320***	0.683**	Ref	Ref	0.174***	0.294
Practicing Catholic	0.660***	1.565***	0.227***	0.127	0.517***	0.681***
Nominal Protestant	0.134**	0.402***			0.411***	0.788*
Practicing Protestant	0.181**	0.208			1.427***	1.311***
Nominal Dutch R′					0.358***	0.056
Practicing Dutch R′					0.999***	0.166
Birth cohort
1930–1939	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
1940–1949	−0.040	0.238	−0.419***	−0.402***	−0.312***	−0.384***
1950–1959	−0.111	0.148	−0.426***	−0.484***	−0.265***	−0.411***
1960–1965	−0.090	0.103	−0.413***	−0.448***	−0.356***	−0.420***
Education
Lower secondary	0.443***	0.419***	0.332***	0.336***	0.131**	0.112*
Upper secondary	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Tertiary	−0.042	−0.050	−0.028	−0.037	−0.298***	−0.302***
Foreign born	−0.131	−0.132	0.219**	0.204**	0.090	0.103
No religion × cohort
1940–1949				−0.115
1950–1959				0.056
1960–1965				−0.247
Nominal Cath’ × cohort
1940–1949		−0.460				−0.275
1950–1959		−0.692**				−0.019
1960–1965		0.005				−0.160
Practicing Cath’ × cohort
1940–1949		−1.140***		−0.124		−0.378
1950–1959		−1.371***		0.337*		−0.361
1960–1965		−0.893**		0.420*		−0.012
Nominal Prot’ × cohort^b
1940–1949		−0.318*				−0.328
1950–1959		−0.330*				−0.391
1960–1965		−0.348*				−0.607
Practicing Prot’ × cohort
1940–1949		−0.177				0.076
1950–1959		0.268				0.584**
1960–1965		0.107				−0.349
Nominal Dutch R × cohort
1940–1949						0.342
1950–1959						0.342
1960–1965						0.473
Practicing Dutch R × cohort
1940–1949						1.536***
1950–1959						0.947***
1960–1965						1.087***
Constant	1.827***	1.625***	2.289***	2.314***	2.080***	2.177***
N	2760	2760	2837	2837	2431	2431
Adjusted R ²	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.14	0.15

* p < 0.1; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01

^a Nominal attending religious services less than once a month. Practicing attending religious services once a month or more

^bIn the Netherlands, “Protestant” refers to Calvinist and Evangelical denominations