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

% of conservatives who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic47%28%16%9%2,767
Evangelical Protestant42%35%16%7%4,954
Historically Black Protestant57%32%8%3%652
Jewish25%31%22%22%166
Mainline Protestant43%31%18%9%2,260
Mormon20%43%27%10%419
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")53%30%13%5%1,276
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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