Parent of children under 18 among adults who attend services seldom or never by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who attend services seldom or never by parental status

% of adults who attend services seldom or never who are…

Religious traditionParentsNon-parentsSample size
Buddhist14%86%107
Catholic24%76%1,325
Evangelical Protestant26%74%992
Historically Black Protestant27%73%181
Jewish16%84%270
Mainline Protestant23%77%1,336
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")25%75%5,568
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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