I’m glad I found your Substack. This is just I was hoping for - the LDS Ryan Burge!
Interesting that the Active demographic looks a lot like the Disaffiliated demographic in education and income. It seems like the progression of dropping out is not Active - Less Active - Disaffiliated, but rather two tracks. The less educated/lower income go from Active to Less Active, while the more educated / higher income go from Active to Disaffiliated. Does that make sense?
Also interesting to see the political party and fertility trends among those three groups. Certainly seems like liberal politics and family status (which also correlates with liberal politics) correlate with dropping out.
Hi Stephen - really high praise! Thanks. I got the idea for this blog from Ryan Burge!
I like your insight about 2 tracks and I think you are right. The Less active group seems to have more "lower propensity" individuals. I am interested in looking at breaks in community involvement, voter turnout, etc among less actives in the future to confirm this.
And yes, there is a very large political divide in these groups. Its interesting to see so many disaffiliated Mormons leave religion entirely which is related to the political "god gap".
I’m glad I found your Substack. This is just I was hoping for - the LDS Ryan Burge!
Interesting that the Active demographic looks a lot like the Disaffiliated demographic in education and income. It seems like the progression of dropping out is not Active - Less Active - Disaffiliated, but rather two tracks. The less educated/lower income go from Active to Less Active, while the more educated / higher income go from Active to Disaffiliated. Does that make sense?
Also interesting to see the political party and fertility trends among those three groups. Certainly seems like liberal politics and family status (which also correlates with liberal politics) correlate with dropping out.
Great stuff.
Hi Stephen - really high praise! Thanks. I got the idea for this blog from Ryan Burge!
I like your insight about 2 tracks and I think you are right. The Less active group seems to have more "lower propensity" individuals. I am interested in looking at breaks in community involvement, voter turnout, etc among less actives in the future to confirm this.
And yes, there is a very large political divide in these groups. Its interesting to see so many disaffiliated Mormons leave religion entirely which is related to the political "god gap".
Sounds great! I will anxiously await your future posts!