Income distribution among adults who say religion is very important by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say religion is very important by household income
% of adults who say religion is very important who have a household income of…
Interpreting scripture | Less than $30,000 | $30,000-$49,999 | $50,000-$99,999 | $100,000 or more | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 46% | 22% | 22% | 10% | 7,175 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 28% | 21% | 30% | 20% | 5,394 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 35% | 21% | 29% | 15% | 619 |
Not the word of God | 36% | 19% | 25% | 20% | 1,766 |
Other/don't know | 42% | 19% | 23% | 17% | 986 |
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