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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 5 Measuring the relationship between importance of religion on early sex and opinions on female cheating

From: The end of “Catholic” sexuality in Italy?

 

Importance of religion

Total

Not

Little

Fairly

Very

First sexual intercourse before 18th birthday (%)

Men

  2000

49.8

39.1

33.4

26.3

35.8

  2017

54.2

52.0

45.5

39.9

50.1

  2017a

47.3

 Women

  2000

41.5

41.9

34.6

22.7

33.1

  2017

59.0

56.0

43.2

37.1

49.9

  2017a

44.7

A young woman in a couple relationship has cheated (% agree)

 Men

  2000

25.7

10.5

11.1

10.7

13.0

  2017

10.6

9.5

10.2

6.9

9.9

  2017a

9.5

 Women

  2000

10.6

6.6

3.5

2.5

4.1

  2017

6.3

3.9

3.1

1.4

3.8

  2017a

2.9

  1. Source: authors’ elaboration on SIS and SELFY surveys data
  2. aIf in 2017 the distribution of students by the importance of religion remained identical to that recorded in 2000