Racial and ethnic composition among Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious family among Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally by race/ethnicity

% of Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally who identify as…

Religious familyWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Baptist Family (Evangelical Trad.)83%3%1%6%6%767
Lutheran Family (Evangelical Trad.)96%1%1%2%< 1%233
Nondenominational Family (Evangelical Trad.)74%8%3%7%7%559
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Evangelical Trad.)71%< 1%1%22%6%137
Pentecostal Family (Evangelical Trad.)59%7%2%29%3%200
Presbyterian Family (Evangelical Trad.)83%5%6%1%5%122
Restorationist Family (Evangelical Trad.)74%11%< 1%10%5%180
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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