It's from 2008 and was written specifically about New Zealand, where the census includes a question about religious affiliation. And it shows that the 30-somethings and 40-somethings of 2006 were actually less religious than their 20-something and 30-something selves had been ten years earlier.
https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/religious-belief-and-age/
We can get an idea of trends over time by comparing New Zealand census for 1996, 2001 and 2006.
The numbers in all age group declaring “no religion” have been increasing over this time period. These numbers peaked in the 20-29 age group for each census.
However, one could argue that the “no religion” group is not declining with as they age. For example, while 34.5% of the 20-29 year group were not religious in 1996, 10 years later they were in the 30-39 year group of which 42.5% were non-religious. Similarly the “no religion” proportion of the 30-39 year group in 1996 (26.2%) had increased to 32.0% of the 40-49 year group in 2006.
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