Racial and ethnic composition among adults who seldom or never meditate by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who seldom or never meditate by race/ethnicity

% of adults who seldom or never meditate who identify as…

Religious traditionWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Catholic68%3%2%25%2%3,091
Evangelical Protestant82%4%1%8%5%3,175
Historically Black Protestant1%94%< 1%4%1%538
Jewish94%1%1%4%1%483
Mainline Protestant89%2%1%5%3%2,646
Mormon81%1%< 1%9%8%172
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")72%8%5%11%4%4,273
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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