Table 3.

Latent Class Measurement Structure of Four Classes of Religiosity in Three Generations

	Strongly religious	Weakly religious	Privately religious	Liberally religious
Indicator	Conditional probabilities
Better off if religion played important role
Disagree	0.002	0.914	0.192	0.121
Agree	0.998	0.086	0.808	0.879
Every child should get religious instruction
Disagree	0.007	0.732	0.148	0.068
Agree	0.993	0.268	0.852	0.932
God exists as described in Bible
Disagree	0.013	0.888	0.066	0.634
Agree	0.987	0.112	0.934	0.366
All people are descendants of Adam & Eve
Disagree	0.040	0.928	0.132	0.936
Agree	0.960	0.072	0.868	0.064
How religious are you?
Somewhat or less	0.010	0.882	0.468	0.275
Pretty or very	0.990	0.118	0.532	0.725
Attend religious services
Never	0.011	0.577	0.425	0.136
Monthly or less	0.255	0.391	0.503	0.573
Weekly +	0.735	0.032	0.072	0.291
Generation	Latent class probabilities
Full sample	0.481	0.257	0.124	0.137
Grandmothers	0.629	0.094	0.042	0.235
Parents	0.482	0.245	0.124	0.149
Grandchildren	0.333	0.432	0.207	0.028