Immigrant status among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good by immigrant status

% of adults who say that government aid to the poor does more harm than good who are…

Religious denominationImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
American Baptist Churches USA11%2%87%204
Assemblies of God14%7%79%258
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints6%5%89%405
Churches of Christ4%7%88%245
Episcopal Church6%10%84%186
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)2%8%89%291
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)4%7%89%499
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)2%7%91%100
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod1%6%93%288
National Baptist Convention4%< 1%95%110
Nondenominational charismatic1%7%92%107
Nondenominational evangelical7%9%84%438
Nothing in particular (religion important)15%9%76%834
Nothing in particular (religion not important)13%13%75%1,066
Presbyterian Church (USA)5%4%91%165
Southern Baptist Convention2%1%97%1,180
United Methodist Church3%4%93%867
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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