Marital status 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 marital status

% of who say common sense is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who are…

Religious denominationMarriedLiving with a partnerDivorced/separatedWidowedNever marriedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA37%7%16%11%28%210
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints60%8%10%7%16%154
Churches of Christ47%7%14%11%21%161
Episcopal Church57%4%12%8%19%248
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)57%4%9%11%19%315
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)45%12%22%6%16%264
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod56%7%8%13%16%183
National Baptist Convention41%1%15%14%29%175
Nondenominational evangelical54%7%11%6%22%131
Nothing in particular (religion important)38%13%14%5%31%1,122
Nothing in particular (religion not important)39%12%11%3%36%1,806
Presbyterian Church (USA)64%1%12%13%11%165
Southern Baptist Convention49%5%18%10%18%543
United Church of Christ65%7%9%9%10%119
United Methodist Church60%6%13%11%9%742
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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