Immigrant status among adults who pray weekly by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who pray weekly by immigrant status

% of adults who pray weekly who are…

Interpreting scriptureImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
Word of God; should be taken literally20%8%72%1,055
Word of God; not everything taken literally11%10%79%1,897
Not the word of God14%11%76%1,758
Other/don't know16%10%73%434
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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