Parent of children under 18 among Evangelical Protestants who read scripture seldom/never by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Evangelical Protestants who read scripture seldom/never by parental status

% of Evangelical Protestants who read scripture seldom/never who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
Churches of Christ33%67%100
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)30%70%166
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod21%79%155
Southern Baptist Convention28%72%294
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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