Educational distribution among never married adults by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among never married adults by educational group

% of never married adults who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic46%33%14%7%1,283
Evangelical Protestant43%39%12%5%1,209
Historically Black Protestant55%33%8%4%598
Jewish22%30%33%14%138
Mainline Protestant43%36%15%7%785
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")45%35%14%6%2,286
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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