Parent of children under 18 among Mainline Protestants by educational group (2014) Switch to: Educational distribution among Mainline Protestants by parental status

% of Mainline Protestants who are…

Educational distributionParentsNon-parentsSample size
High school or less21%79%1,532
Some college27%73%1,566
College30%70%1,668
Post-graduate degree30%70%1,263
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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