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Church Attendance in Spain (1930-1992): Gender Differences and Secularization

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  • Pablo Brañas-Garza

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This paper uses retrospective data from the ISSP98 database to reconstruct church-attendance trends in Spain from 1930 to 1992. Time series analysis is performed to examine religious changes in two parallel ways:first, to determine both male and female church-attendance trends and second, to study the gender effect, that is, differences between males and females regarding church attendance. Our results indicate that: i) both male and female church attendance is declining at a rate of 2% annually; ii) gender differences remain unaltered for the period analyzed.

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  • Pablo Brañas-Garza, 2003. "Church Attendance in Spain (1930-1992): Gender Differences and Secularization," IESA Working Papers Series 0304, Institute for Social Syudies of Andalusia - Higher Council for Scientific Research.
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    Spain; church-attendance trends; gender di.erences; secularization.;
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    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General
    • R0 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General

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