Gender composition among parents by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among parents by gender

% of parents who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
American Baptist Churches USA32%68%108
Assemblies of God40%60%124
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%57%237
Churches of Christ36%64%122
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)51%49%114
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)44%56%212
National Baptist Convention32%68%101
Nondenominational evangelical42%58%235
Nothing in particular (religion important)42%58%572
Nothing in particular (religion not important)48%52%652
Southern Baptist Convention51%49%374
United Methodist Church46%54%312
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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