Parent of children under 18 among who do not believe in Heaven by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among who do not believe in Heaven by parental status

% of who do not believe in Heaven who are…

Religious traditionParentsNon-parentsSample size
Buddhist20%80%151
Catholic29%71%706
Evangelical Protestant30%70%502
Jewish22%78%460
Mainline Protestant24%76%856
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")23%77%4,418
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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