Parent of children under 18 among adults with some college education by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with some college education by parental status

% of adults with some college education who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA36%64%126
Assemblies of God45%55%147
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints36%64%214
Churches of Christ42%58%158
Episcopal Church19%81%103
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)25%75%179
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)35%65%262
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod21%79%133
National Baptist Convention32%68%118
Nondenominational evangelical36%64%201
Nothing in particular (religion important)36%64%541
Nothing in particular (religion not important)24%76%782
Southern Baptist Convention28%72%599
United Methodist Church24%76%430
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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