Educational distribution among adults who pray daily by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who pray daily by educational group

% of adults who pray daily who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA56%31%8%5%319
Assemblies of God51%32%12%4%384
Church of God in Christ48%38%7%7%136
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints22%41%26%11%554
Churches of Christ46%35%11%8%380
Episcopal Church13%32%27%29%254
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)32%32%21%15%382
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)48%34%13%6%625
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)24%46%16%14%170
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod34%32%22%11%304
National Baptist Convention52%26%14%8%390
Nondenominational charismatic39%35%17%10%165
Nondenominational evangelical28%36%23%12%575
Nothing in particular (religion important)53%31%10%5%885
Nothing in particular (religion not important)40%38%12%10%306
Presbyterian Church (USA)29%25%26%20%265
Presbyterian Church in America26%37%22%15%102
Seventh-day Adventist34%40%16%10%144
Southern Baptist Convention44%35%14%6%1,492
United Church of Christ36%22%19%23%120
United Methodist Church35%31%21%14%1,016
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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