Parent of children under 18 among republicans and Republican leaners by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among republicans and Republican leaners by parental status

% of republicans and Republican leaners who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA29%71%205
Assemblies of God34%66%288
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%57%466
Churches of Christ34%66%250
Episcopal Church15%85%192
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)28%72%280
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)28%72%515
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod23%77%287
Nondenominational charismatic36%64%110
Nondenominational evangelical40%60%483
Nothing in particular (religion important)35%65%559
Nothing in particular (religion not important)24%76%718
Presbyterian Church (USA)18%82%194
Southern Baptist Convention27%73%1,205
United Methodist Church23%77%888
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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