Parent of children under 18 among adults with an education level of high school or less by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with an education level of high school or less by parental status

% of adults with an education level of high school or less who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA26%74%236
Assemblies of God27%73%202
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints27%73%122
Churches of Christ22%78%196
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)13%87%143
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)23%77%326
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod12%88%121
National Baptist Convention20%80%203
Nondenominational evangelical28%72%142
Nothing in particular (religion important)30%70%898
Nothing in particular (religion not important)24%76%809
Southern Baptist Convention22%78%669
United Methodist Church17%83%381
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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