Entry:

Van Rompaey, Stephen E. and Suchman, Mark L., "Religion, Life-cycle and History: An Exploratory Temporal Analysis of Interfaith Conversion," Paper presented to the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1990.


Abstract:

Examining conversion using event-history analysis provides little support for viewing conversion as an adolescent phenomenon, yet suggests that the early 1960s Vatican Council dramatically effected Catholic to Protestant conversion.

GSS Years:

1973-1988

Other Data Sets:

Gallup

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
RDEEMLIB

CONTRAST BETWEEN REDEEMER AND LIBERATOR

AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

AGEWED

AGE WHEN FIRST MARRIED

RELIG

RS RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

SPREL

SPOUSES RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX