Educational distribution among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by educational group

% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic44%29%17%10%4,750
Evangelical Protestant43%36%14%7%7,551
Historically Black Protestant51%34%9%6%1,685
Jehovah's Witness62%26%9%3%217
Jewish26%25%24%25%275
Mainline Protestant38%31%18%12%3,963
Mormon25%41%24%10%574
Muslim37%27%22%14%192
Orthodox Christian28%36%26%10%113
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")52%32%12%5%1,797
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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