Gender composition among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by gender

% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
American Baptist Churches USA50%50%231
Assemblies of God50%50%297
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints47%53%507
Churches of Christ47%53%304
Episcopal Church55%45%272
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)50%50%403
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)56%44%576
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)44%56%121
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod52%48%343
National Baptist Convention45%55%109
Nondenominational charismatic51%49%126
Nondenominational evangelical50%50%556
Nothing in particular (religion important)59%41%983
Nothing in particular (religion not important)63%37%1,463
Presbyterian Church (USA)54%46%249
Presbyterian Church in America57%43%112
Southern Baptist Convention56%44%1,336
United Church of Christ41%59%108
United Methodist Church50%50%1,115
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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