1. Interfaith America: Demographic Patterns and Trends A presentation to the Interfaith Opportunity Summit, October 26, 2016
Alan Cooperman
Director of Religion Research

2. U.S. Adult Jewish Population, 2013
Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

3. Partly Jewish by religion Jewish not by religion or mix
Jewish Child Rearing
Among those who are parents/guardians of minor children in their household, % raising their children …
Jewish by religion
Partly Jewish by religion
Jewish not by religion or mix
NOT Jewish %
NET Jewish 59 14 8 18
Jews by religion 71 15 7
Jews of no religion 11 67
Among Jews married to …
Jewish spouse 96 2 1
Non-Jewish spouse 20 25 16 37
Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, “Other” responses not shown. “Jews not by religion or mix,” includes those who are raising their children Jewish but not by religion along with those who have multiple children, some of whom are being raised Jewish by religion, others partly Jewish by religion, and others Jewish but not by religion.

4. Intermarriage, by Year of Marriage
% of Jewish respondents with a non-Jewish spouse …
Overall
Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, Note: This table is based on the current religion of the spouse in intact marriages. It does not take account of divorces or remarriages. If intermarriages break up at higher rates than in-marriages – as some research suggests – these figures may underrepresent the share of intermarriages, particularly in decades past.

5. Intermarriage, by Denomination
Among married Jews, % whose spouse is…
Source: Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.

6. Rising Share of Jews are Offspring of Intermarriage
Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, Note: Based on net Jews – current Jewish adults. Raised Jewish without a Jewish parent not shown. QH16, AGE.

7. Rising Share of Offspring of Intermarriages Are Jewish in Adulthood
Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, Note: Based on all adults who have one Jewish parent and one non-Jewish parent.

8. Jewish identity by parent religion
Among all U.S. adults today who have…
Currently identify as…
A Jewish mother and a Jewish father
A Jewish mother, NOT a Jewish father
A Jewish father, NOT a Jewish mother
Jews by religion
88%
Jews of no religion
47%
40%
Note: Based on all U.S. adults who have at least one Jewish parent.
Source: Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013.

9. New pew research center study: religious mixing in american families October 26, 2016

10. One-in-five U.S. adults were raised in interfaith homes
Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

11. Millennials more likely to have been raised in households with mixed religious identities
Born before 1946 b b b
Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

12. Americans raised with a SINGLE religious background
Either by a single parent who was ___ or by two parents who were both___
Raised…
Current religious identity
Protestant
Catholic
Unaffiliated
Other
Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

13. Americans raised with MIXED religious backgrounds
By two parents who did NOT have the same religions,
one of whom was ___ and the other ___
Raised…
Current religious identity
Protestant, Catholic
Protestant
Catholic
Unaffiliated
Other
Net affiliated, 62%
Religiously affiliated, religiously unaffiliated
Protestant
Unaffiliated
Catholic
Other
Protestant, unaffiliated
Protestant
Unaffiliated
Catholic
Other
Catholic, unaffiliated
Catholic
Unaffiliated
Protestant
Other
Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

14. Who was more responsible for your religious upbringing?
Most say their parents shared equally in their religious upbringing, but if one was more responsible, it was usually mom
Who was more responsible for your religious upbringing?
Note: Based on those raised by biological or adoptive mother and father. Don’t know/refused responses not shown.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

15. Those from mixed religious backgrounds more likely to adopt mother’s religion as their own
Based on those from religiously mixed backgrounds raised by two biological or adoptive parents
Note: Religiously mixed backgrounds includes being raised by two parents (biological or adoptive) who belonged to different religions or one parent who was religiously affiliated and one parent who was unaffiliated. Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

16. One-quarter of married adults are in religiously mixed marriages
Note: Based on those who are currently married. Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014.

17. % who say each is “very important” for a successful marriage
For a successful marriage, religion more important than politics, less important than sex or shared interests
% who say each is “very important” for a successful marriage
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015.

18. Alan Cooperman www.pewresearch.org/religion acooperman@pewresearch.org