Parent of children under 18 among adults who pray daily by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who pray daily by parental status

% of adults who pray daily who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA33%67%320
Assemblies of God35%65%388
Church of God in Christ36%64%136
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%57%553
Churches of Christ31%69%382
Episcopal Church20%80%256
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)23%77%384
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)30%70%625
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)36%64%170
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod22%78%304
National Baptist Convention24%76%390
Nondenominational charismatic30%70%165
Nondenominational evangelical38%62%572
Nothing in particular (religion important)34%66%889
Nothing in particular (religion not important)22%78%310
Presbyterian Church (USA)23%77%268
Presbyterian Church in America22%78%103
Seventh-day Adventist31%69%145
Southern Baptist Convention26%74%1,499
United Church of Christ20%80%119
United Methodist Church24%76%1,019
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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