Immigrant status among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by immigrant status

% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who are…

Religious denominationImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church1%2%97%105
American Baptist Churches USA6%5%89%372
Assemblies of God18%8%73%414
Church of God in Christ14%3%83%150
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints6%7%87%555
Churches of Christ7%6%87%410
Episcopal Church5%12%84%278
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)2%8%90%452
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)4%6%89%714
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)6%10%84%178
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod2%6%92%375
National Baptist Convention3%1%96%415
Nondenominational charismatic3%10%87%171
Nondenominational evangelical7%11%82%623
Nondenominational fundamentalist6%7%87%100
Nothing in particular (religion important)14%8%78%1,119
Nothing in particular (religion not important)14%13%73%512
Presbyterian Church (USA)10%5%86%292
Presbyterian Church in America5%6%89%119
Seventh-day Adventist35%11%54%145
Southern Baptist Convention2%2%96%1,650
United Church of Christ7%8%85%129
United Methodist Church4%4%93%1,161
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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