Income distribution among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by household income

% of adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services 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 USA66%14%13%7%177
Assemblies of God65%16%14%4%114
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints52%18%25%5%101
Churches of Christ56%19%14%11%146
Episcopal Church26%13%27%34%166
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)22%22%29%27%166
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)60%19%16%5%185
National Baptist Convention56%19%18%8%298
Nothing in particular (religion important)60%16%17%7%785
Nothing in particular (religion not important)34%21%25%20%1,137
Presbyterian Church (USA)28%11%32%30%130
Southern Baptist Convention50%21%19%11%360
Unitarian12%7%40%41%102
United Methodist Church27%21%31%21%375
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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