Cultural Inheritance and Fertility Outcomes: An Analysis from Evolutionary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Table 2

Percentage distributions of respondents’ religious affiliation raised and current religious affiliation (%): US females, 2002-2003.

Religion raised	Current religion
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	𝑁
(1) No religion	66	4.5	4.9	9.7	3.2	3.2	3.0	4.8	630
(2) Catholic	8.8	77.9	2.1	2.9	2.2	1.3	2.7	1.9	2,796
(3) Baptist/Southern Baptist	7.6	0.8	74.8	4.2	3.7	2.7	4.3	1.7	1,594
(4) Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Arian	11.3	2.5	4.4	67.2	1.7	3.9	6.0	3.0	1,179
(5) Fundamental Protestant	12.7	0.8	6.6	1.2	68.6	4.1	4.4	1.5	471
(6) Other Protestant denomination	13.5	7.5	1.5	3.5	0	76.8	3.1	0.7	356
(7) Protestant-no specific denomination	15.3	7.6	2.2	1.5	2.6	0	69.0	1.8	195
(8) Other non-Christian religion	7.9	0.6	2.3	2.5	0.5	15.7	0.9	69.7	398
𝑁	1,107	2,250	1,396	1,001	493	501	424	448	7,619

Sources: derived from NSFG Cycle 6 female dataset, 2002-2003 [46]. All cases are weighted.