Racial and ethnic composition among adults who pray daily by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who pray daily by race/ethnicity

% of adults who pray daily who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA71%11%1%11%6%317
Assemblies of God70%2%1%23%5%387
Church of God in Christ5%87%< 1%4%4%135
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints86%< 1%2%7%5%548
Churches of Christ69%16%1%9%4%377
Episcopal Church87%6%1%4%3%255
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)96%2%< 1%1%1%381
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)89%< 1%1%5%5%622
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)61%26%2%8%3%169
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod96%1%< 1%1%1%303
National Baptist Convention< 1%99%< 1%1%< 1%393
Nondenominational charismatic66%15%1%12%6%163
Nondenominational evangelical74%6%3%13%4%572
Nothing in particular (religion important)48%22%2%20%7%866
Nothing in particular (religion not important)58%13%3%20%6%294
Presbyterian Church (USA)87%4%5%3%1%268
Presbyterian Church in America76%9%3%8%4%102
Seventh-day Adventist37%33%7%15%9%140
Southern Baptist Convention85%6%< 1%3%5%1,491
United Church of Christ86%9%< 1%2%3%119
United Methodist Church92%2%1%3%2%1,015
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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