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

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

Religious familyParentsNon-parentsSample size
Baptist Family (Mainline Trad.)28%72%215
Congregationalist Family (Mainline Trad.)23%77%137
Episcopalian/Anglican Family (Mainline Trad.)20%80%327
Lutheran Family (Mainline Trad.)30%70%401
Methodist Family (Mainline Trad.)24%76%648
Nondenominational Family (Mainline Trad.)33%67%169
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Mainline Trad.)26%74%378
Presbyterian Family (Mainline Trad.)20%80%309
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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