Educational distribution among adults who believe in God and are fairly certain by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who believe in God and are fairly certain by educational group

% of adults who believe in God and are fairly certain who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic52%23%16%9%1,842
Evangelical Protestant47%35%13%6%823
Historically Black Protestant61%27%7%5%173
Jewish17%19%32%32%231
Mainline Protestant32%30%21%17%1,544
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")40%35%15%9%1,609
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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