Educational distribution among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by educational group

% of who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA56%32%5%7%194
Assemblies of God55%29%11%5%343
Church of God in Christ49%39%6%5%101
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints23%41%24%12%418
Churches of Christ42%37%14%8%278
Episcopal Church9%28%30%34%102
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)31%35%18%17%215
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)46%32%15%6%473
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)24%45%19%13%129
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod27%30%27%16%209
National Baptist Convention48%29%15%9%240
Nondenominational charismatic34%41%18%8%134
Nondenominational evangelical28%37%23%12%497
Nothing in particular (religion important)64%25%8%4%350
Presbyterian Church (USA)29%25%25%20%152
Seventh-day Adventist28%46%17%10%115
Southern Baptist Convention42%36%15%6%1,148
United Methodist Church35%29%23%14%608
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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