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

% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer 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 USA37%21%30%12%201
Assemblies of God29%26%31%14%257
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints20%20%36%25%456
Churches of Christ27%25%28%20%269
Episcopal Church12%12%41%35%236
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)17%22%33%28%339
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)29%25%32%15%505
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)24%29%32%15%108
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod18%18%39%25%290
Nondenominational charismatic19%20%35%26%114
Nondenominational evangelical18%22%38%23%507
Nothing in particular (religion important)34%25%24%16%870
Nothing in particular (religion not important)26%23%29%22%1,306
Presbyterian Church (USA)21%18%27%34%216
Southern Baptist Convention24%23%36%18%1,176
United Methodist Church20%20%32%28%966
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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