Racial and ethnic composition among adults with a post-graduate degree by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with a post-graduate degree by race/ethnicity

% of adults with a post-graduate degree who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Episcopal Church88%6%2%1%3%166
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)93%1%4%1%1%127
Nondenominational evangelical75%7%7%6%5%117
Nothing in particular (religion important)61%12%15%8%5%167
Nothing in particular (religion not important)74%4%11%8%4%567
Presbyterian Church (USA)94%1%2%2%< 1%136
Southern Baptist Convention79%8%5%1%7%183
United Methodist Church95%2%< 1%2%1%330
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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