Educational distribution among adults in the West by political ideology (2014) Switch to: Political ideology among adults in the West by educational group

% of adults in the West who have completed…

Political ideologyHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Conservative41%36%16%7%2,895
Moderate35%36%19%11%2,823
Liberal34%30%20%17%2,292
Don't know56%30%11%4%439
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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