Educational distribution among married adults by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among married adults by educational group

% of married adults who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist13%37%26%24%101
Catholic41%26%20%13%3,792
Evangelical Protestant40%34%17%9%4,827
Hindu5%5%32%58%130
Historically Black Protestant45%34%12%10%621
Jehovah's Witness64%24%8%4%121
Jewish14%17%29%40%496
Mainline Protestant30%28%24%18%3,424
Mormon23%37%28%13%453
Muslim31%18%28%23%110
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")31%28%23%17%3,143
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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