Educational distribution among non-parents by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among non-parents by educational group

% of non-parents who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist19%33%29%19%216
Catholic46%29%15%9%5,381
Evangelical Protestant47%33%13%6%6,350
Hindu14%13%30%42%114
Historically Black Protestant56%30%9%5%1,413
Jehovah's Witness63%27%8%3%178
Jewish20%23%29%28%658
Mainline Protestant39%30%18%13%4,817
Mormon33%44%16%8%418
Muslim34%29%21%17%147
Orthodox Christian33%32%20%15%136
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")39%33%18%11%5,769
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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