Educational distribution among 30-49 year olds by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among 30-49 year olds by educational group

% of 30-49 year olds who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Assemblies of God45%40%9%5%107
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints16%39%32%13%216
Churches of Christ37%43%13%8%115
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)17%37%27%20%123
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)38%41%13%9%214
National Baptist Convention45%24%19%13%103
Nondenominational evangelical22%36%25%17%221
Nothing in particular (religion important)51%28%14%6%654
Nothing in particular (religion not important)34%31%21%15%894
Southern Baptist Convention36%36%20%8%382
United Methodist Church23%35%27%14%318
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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