Educational distribution among adults who read scripture at least once a week by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who read scripture at least once a week by educational group

% of adults who read scripture at least once a week who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA57%29%10%5%236
Assemblies of God51%32%12%5%355
Church of God in Christ48%39%8%5%114
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints21%42%25%12%498
Churches of Christ46%34%12%8%301
Episcopal Church20%26%25%28%113
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)37%33%18%13%187
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)47%32%15%6%506
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)27%43%16%14%138
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod27%35%26%12%182
National Baptist Convention51%28%13%8%315
Nondenominational charismatic37%36%19%9%142
Nondenominational evangelical28%36%24%12%498
Nothing in particular (religion important)55%31%9%4%424
Nothing in particular (religion not important)43%35%10%12%111
Presbyterian Church (USA)34%18%24%24%166
Seventh-day Adventist35%39%16%10%121
Southern Baptist Convention43%36%14%6%1,201
United Methodist Church33%31%22%14%638
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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