Views about government aid to the poor among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by views about government aid to the poor
% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services who say government aid to the poor…
Religious denomination | Does more harm than good | Does more good than harm | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 64% | 29% | 5% | 2% | 231 |
Assemblies of God | 70% | 27% | 1% | 2% | 297 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 77% | 19% | 3% | 2% | 507 |
Churches of Christ | 63% | 33% | 3% | 1% | 304 |
Episcopal Church | 62% | 33% | 3% | 1% | 272 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 64% | 30% | 5% | 2% | 403 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 69% | 26% | 4% | 1% | 576 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 69% | 27% | 5% | < 1% | 121 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 75% | 22% | 2% | 1% | 343 |
National Baptist Convention | 37% | 56% | 1% | 5% | 109 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 74% | 21% | 4% | < 1% | 126 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 74% | 21% | 4% | 1% | 556 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 57% | 38% | 3% | 1% | 983 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 55% | 39% | 4% | 2% | 1,463 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 58% | 34% | 4% | 4% | 249 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 78% | 21% | 1% | 1% | 112 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 75% | 22% | 2% | 1% | 1,336 |
United Church of Christ | 64% | 32% | 2% | 2% | 108 |
United Methodist Church | 70% | 27% | 2% | 1% | 1,115 |
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