Italy: reasons to leave a religion 2017

This statistic displays the reasons to leave a religion in Italy in 2017. When respondents in Italy who were raised within a religion were asked why they left it, 72 percent of the participants stated that they had gradually drifted away from religion. No longer believing in the religion's teachings was cited by 35 percent of the respondents. In contrast, only six percent said to have left their religion to marry someone from outside their own religion.

Reasons to leave a religion in Italy in 2017

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Release date

May 2018

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Region

Italy

Survey time period

April to August 2017

Number of respondents

1,804*

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Respondents who were raised in a religion but now identify as unaffiliated

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.

* Total number of Italian respondents taking the survey. Of these participants, 15 percent said consider themselves as religiously unaffiliated. Only eight percent of the currently religiously unaffiliated participants in Italy had also been raised religiously unaffiliated. The other 92 percent is the subject of this statistic.

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