Educational distribution among Mainline Protestants who would rather have smaller government; fewer services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Mainline Protestants who would rather have smaller government; fewer services by educational group

% of Mainline Protestants who would rather have smaller government; fewer services who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA57%30%8%5%231
Episcopal Church17%33%29%21%268
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)36%34%19%11%398
Presbyterian Church (USA)28%21%33%19%249
United Church of Christ37%18%22%22%108
United Methodist Church30%32%25%14%1,111
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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