Parent of children under 18 among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by parental status

% of adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA37%63%207
Assemblies of God32%68%130
Church of God in Christ33%67%108
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints27%73%112
Churches of Christ31%69%161
Episcopal Church28%72%179
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)19%81%187
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)31%69%205
National Baptist Convention27%73%328
Nondenominational evangelical42%58%102
Nothing in particular (religion important)36%64%888
Nothing in particular (religion not important)25%75%1,255
Presbyterian Church (USA)28%72%145
Southern Baptist Convention26%74%405
Unitarian25%75%110
United Methodist Church24%76%411
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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