When we convert the significant accelerated failure-time coefficients to odds coefficients, it becomes apparent that women who are affiliated with Catholic, Mormon, moderate Protestant,and conservative Protestant churches have .678, .479, .628, and .513 times lesser odds of surviving, respectively, than those who are not affiliated with any organized religion (exp{–(–[–.056]/.144)}, exp{–(–[–.106]/.144)}, exp{–(–[–.067]/.144)}, and exp{–(–[–.096]/.144)}). Substantively, this means that all else being equal, Catholic and Mormon women, along with those of moderate and conservative Protestant faiths, are significantly less likely to delay their marriages as compared to women who are not affiliated.

The results of these auxiliary statistical tests reveal the following findings net of statistical controls: (a)Jewish women marry significantly later than Catholic, Mormon, and conservative Protestant women; (b) Catholic women also marry significantly later than Mormon and conservative Protestant women but earlier than the unaffiliated, thus situating Catholic women between early-marrying religious conservatives and late-marrying religious nones and Jews; (c) although liberal and moderate Protestant women marry later than Mormon and conservative Protestant women, no significant difference surfaced between Mormon women and conservative Protestant women; and finally(d) there are no statistical differences between Catholic and liberal Protestant women nor between Jewish and liberal Protestant women in marriage timing. Taken together, these results lend strong credence to both hypotheses developed at the outset with reference to women.