Income distribution among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by household income

% of who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who have a household income of…

Religious denominationLess than $30,000$30,000-$49,999$50,000-$99,999$100,000 or moreSample size
American Baptist Churches USA51%16%23%10%180
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints29%21%32%17%139
Churches of Christ46%18%22%13%142
Episcopal Church21%13%35%31%216
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)20%26%27%27%274
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)45%24%23%8%237
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod24%20%36%21%155
National Baptist Convention53%18%21%8%159
Nondenominational evangelical25%25%27%23%117
Nothing in particular (religion important)45%21%22%12%995
Nothing in particular (religion not important)31%24%26%19%1,624
Presbyterian Church (USA)29%15%25%32%140
Southern Baptist Convention40%20%25%14%486
United Church of Christ26%17%29%27%109
United Methodist Church22%20%33%25%652
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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