Educational distribution among Evangelical Protestants who are third generation or higher by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious family among Evangelical Protestants who are third generation or higher by educational group

% of Evangelical Protestants who are third generation or higher who have completed…

Religious familyHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Adventist Family (Evangelical Trad.)40%38%13%8%106
Baptist Family (Evangelical Trad.)48%34%13%5%2,889
Holiness Family (Evangelical Trad.)44%37%10%9%232
Lutheran Family (Evangelical Trad.)36%36%18%11%552
Nondenominational Family (Evangelical Trad.)29%41%19%10%1,368
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Evangelical Trad.)45%38%11%6%350
Pentecostal Family (Evangelical Trad.)51%36%10%3%797
Presbyterian Family (Evangelical Trad.)31%35%21%14%261
Restorationist Family (Evangelical Trad.)46%36%11%7%466
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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