Immigrant status among college graduates by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among college graduates by immigrant status

% of college graduates who are…

Religious denominationImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints7%9%84%207
Episcopal Church5%11%84%170
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)< 1%6%93%186
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)4%6%91%169
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod6%5%89%120
Nondenominational evangelical12%8%80%221
Nothing in particular (religion important)15%12%73%381
Nothing in particular (religion not important)15%12%73%774
Presbyterian Church (USA)2%6%92%129
Southern Baptist Convention2%2%96%376
United Methodist Church5%5%90%489
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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