Compared to the nonreligious, Mormons have more than two times the odds of marrying in a person-year, and conservative Protestants have about 37 percent higher odds of marrying earlier.

. . . .Thus, on a spectrum from early to late marriage there are three groups: (1) Mormons, who are the most likely among young adults to marry young, (2) conservative Protestants and the imprecise “other” category, who occupy the middle, and (3) mainliners, Catholics, Jews, black Protestants, and the nonreligious, who are the least likely to marry early.

. . . .Mormons are most likely to marry to early, and conservative Protestants are more likely than mainline Protestants and Catholics to marry. So too are those who attended religious services only occasionally as adolescents, those who believe their scripture is inerrant, and those who went to high school with a higher proportion of conservative Protestants and Mormons.