Well-educated and rich in US? Has to be a Hindu
By S.
Rajagopalanhttp://www.newindpress.com/
Friday, February 29 2008 at 06:46 IST
WASHINGTON: Hindus in the US truly have something to brag
about -- they are the most educated among all religious
groups and have the second highest income level, next only
to the Jews.
A good 43 per cent of Hindus are earning over USD100,000 a
year, compared to Jews who are marginally ahead of them
with 46 per cent, according to the US Religious Landscape
Survey, conducted by the Washington--based Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life.
How significant the take--home pay of the two communities
is can be judged from the fact that just 18 per cent of all
Americans make more than USD100,000 annually. The landmark
survey, based on interviews with a nationally
representative sample of over 35,000 adults, projects that
Hindus top the education charts with 48 per cent having
post--graduate degrees.
The Jews follow with 35 per cent, while the national
average is just 11 per cent. Hindus, who account for just
0.4 per cent of the adult population in a country of 303
million people, can also boast of better matrimonial
harmony on the basis of one important yardstick -- they
have the lowest divorced/separated rate (5 per cent) among
all religious groups.
The survey, which claims to explore the "remarkable
dynamism taking place in the US religious marketplace",
also reports that Hindus are the most likely to be married
(78 per cent) -- and to be married to someone within the
faith (90 per cent).
Christians form the bulk of America’s population -- 78.4
per cent. Of them, 51.3 per cent are Protestants, 23.9 per
cent Catholics and the rest belong to a number of smaller
Christian groups. Jews account for 1.7 per cent, while
Muslims (0.6 per cent) are just a little more than the
number of Hindus.
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