Mormon Metrics

Mormon Metrics

Mormons & Marriage

Historically, Mormons have had higher marriage rates. Is this still true?

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Alex Bass
Jun 30, 2024
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Introduction

This post needs no grand introduction... I was just curious about how Mormon marital status has changed compared to the US population.

Data

The data in this post is from the GSS which has data from 1978 to present. Unfortunately, due to the limited sample size of the GSS (having a few thousand respondents each …

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