Racial and ethnic composition among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong by race/ethnicity

% of who say religion is their primary source of guidance on what's right and wrong who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA72%13%2%9%3%192
Assemblies of God67%2%1%26%5%343
Church of God in Christ5%82%< 1%10%4%101
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints89%1%< 1%7%3%415
Churches of Christ72%18%1%6%3%277
Episcopal Church90%7%< 1%1%2%101
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)95%1%2%1%< 1%214
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)89%< 1%1%6%4%468
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)59%26%4%8%4%129
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod96%1%< 1%1%2%209
National Baptist Convention< 1%100%< 1%< 1%< 1%243
Nondenominational charismatic67%14%1%10%7%133
Nondenominational evangelical72%7%2%14%4%496
Nothing in particular (religion important)47%24%3%21%6%337
Presbyterian Church (USA)85%2%7%4%1%153
Seventh-day Adventist40%31%6%18%5%111
Southern Baptist Convention86%6%< 1%3%4%1,146
United Methodist Church94%1%< 1%3%1%606
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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