Do these numbers include exmormons, or is this only people who chose LDS as their religious affiliation? Perhaps the reason we're not seeing as big of a gender gap if this is for self-identifyijg members is because young women are becoming more liberal and leaving the church, while some folks (perhaps young men are included) are becoming more radically conservative and leaving the church too.
I'm also not surprised that both younger men and women (including millenials) are both skewing more liberal. I've noticed that ward leadership and particularly bishoprics in the multiple units I've lived in over the last several years have been trending more toward empathy, understanding, and a love-one-another focused approach which tends to be associated with more liberal or progressive mormons
Ya you bring up one hard part of doing these analyses. Religion is a demographic that is a bit more transient than some of the other demographics commonly measured (gender, race etc. which more often than not many people self-id the same way on these ones throughout their lifetime). Generally when I study survey data on LDS, it is self identifying LDS (so not including exmormons), but if you were to look at everyone raised LDS you may be able to see a gender gap.
Do these numbers include exmormons, or is this only people who chose LDS as their religious affiliation? Perhaps the reason we're not seeing as big of a gender gap if this is for self-identifyijg members is because young women are becoming more liberal and leaving the church, while some folks (perhaps young men are included) are becoming more radically conservative and leaving the church too.
I'm also not surprised that both younger men and women (including millenials) are both skewing more liberal. I've noticed that ward leadership and particularly bishoprics in the multiple units I've lived in over the last several years have been trending more toward empathy, understanding, and a love-one-another focused approach which tends to be associated with more liberal or progressive mormons
Ya you bring up one hard part of doing these analyses. Religion is a demographic that is a bit more transient than some of the other demographics commonly measured (gender, race etc. which more often than not many people self-id the same way on these ones throughout their lifetime). Generally when I study survey data on LDS, it is self identifying LDS (so not including exmormons), but if you were to look at everyone raised LDS you may be able to see a gender gap.