Educational distribution among baby Boomers by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among baby Boomers by educational group

% of baby Boomers who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA69%18%9%3%194
Assemblies of God55%28%13%4%190
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints33%39%19%10%209
Churches of Christ46%34%12%7%182
Episcopal Church15%31%28%26%213
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)31%30%21%18%259
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)55%28%13%3%354
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod34%31%21%13%183
National Baptist Convention57%27%11%5%216
Nondenominational evangelical27%38%23%13%270
Nothing in particular (religion important)57%26%11%6%649
Nothing in particular (religion not important)32%33%18%17%938
Presbyterian Church (USA)26%22%26%25%171
Southern Baptist Convention48%36%12%5%789
United Church of Christ32%19%21%28%101
United Methodist Church32%29%23%16%677
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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