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

% of moderates who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA57%31%5%7%147
Assemblies of God60%29%10%1%106
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints33%38%17%12%169
Churches of Christ49%36%12%3%135
Episcopal Church12%29%37%22%191
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)24%34%25%17%261
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)52%36%9%3%207
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod32%35%19%13%134
National Baptist Convention49%28%14%9%170
Nondenominational evangelical25%39%20%15%176
Nothing in particular (religion important)48%33%12%6%749
Nothing in particular (religion not important)35%34%19%12%1,060
Presbyterian Church (USA)21%24%27%28%162
Southern Baptist Convention48%35%12%6%414
United Methodist Church25%31%26%18%623
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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