2010 U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey

Pew Research Center · Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI)

A 32-question quiz on the Bible, world religions, and church-state law, fielded May 19–June 6, 2010 among 3,412 U.S. adults by landline and cell phone. The survey oversampled Jewish, Mormon, and atheist/agnostic respondents by recontacting people previous surveys had identified as belonging to those groups, which makes it one of the few Pew datasets from this era with a usable standalone Mormon subsample on a knowledge (rather than belief/practice) battery.

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Bar chart: share correctly identifying Joseph Smith as Mormon, by respondent's own religion. Mormon 98.51%, Agnostic 96.36%, Jewish 89.19%, Atheist 85.6%, Protestant 84.29%, Unaffiliated 73.41%, Catholic 72.98%, All U.S. adults 80.22%.

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