Educational distribution among Evangelical Protestants who say government aid to the poor does more harm than good by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious family among Evangelical Protestants who say government aid to the poor does more harm than good by educational group

% of Evangelical Protestants who say government aid to the poor does more harm than good who have completed…

Religious familyHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Baptist Family (Evangelical Trad.)43%36%15%6%1,923
Holiness Family (Evangelical Trad.)47%36%11%6%159
Lutheran Family (Evangelical Trad.)36%33%21%10%383
Nondenominational Family (Evangelical Trad.)31%40%20%8%952
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Evangelical Trad.)47%34%11%8%255
Pentecostal Family (Evangelical Trad.)53%33%10%3%567
Presbyterian Family (Evangelical Trad.)31%30%24%14%174
Restorationist Family (Evangelical Trad.)43%37%12%8%266
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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