Racial and ethnic composition among women by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among women by race/ethnicity

% of women who identify as…

Religious traditionWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Buddhist40%5%33%13%10%126
Catholic60%3%2%33%2%3,737
Evangelical Protestant74%6%2%12%5%4,474
Historically Black Protestant2%95%< 1%3%1%1,096
Jehovah's Witness35%26%< 1%31%8%156
Jewish91%1%2%5%1%415
Mainline Protestant86%4%1%5%4%3,273
Mormon84%1%2%8%5%314
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")68%9%5%13%5%3,042
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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