Educational distribution among third generation immigrants or higher by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among third generation immigrants or higher by educational group

% of third generation immigrants or higher who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist16%37%25%22%162
Catholic37%31%20%13%4,654
Evangelical Protestant43%36%14%7%7,330
Historically Black Protestant52%34%9%5%1,691
Jehovah's Witness58%30%8%4%169
Jewish16%20%32%32%565
Mainline Protestant36%30%19%14%5,274
Mormon25%41%23%11%572
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")38%33%18%10%5,770
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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