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Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
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SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Religion (SR2012A_RELIG)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 182
End: 183
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Personal module</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">All persons in the household</span>
<br />[Questions P01a to P06c were asked of all persons in the household.]</p>

<p>P07. What is this person's religion / faith?</p>
<div class="i1">Christianity</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Roman Catholic<br />[] 2 Lutheran<br />[] 3 Pentecostalism<br />[] 4 Moravian Church<br />[] 5 Reformed<br />[] 6 Other Christian</div><div class="i1">Hinduism</div><div class="i2">[] 7 Sanatan Dharm<br />[] 8 Arya<br />[] 9 Other Hindu</div><div class="i1">Islam</div><div class="i2">[] 10 Islamic - Sunni<br />[] 11 Islamic - Ahmadiyya<br />[] 12 Other Islamic</div><div class="i1">Other religions</div><div class="i2">[] 13 Jehovah's Witnesses<br />[] 14 Javanism<br />[] 15 Judaism<br />[] 16 Winti<br />[] 17 Other, please specify ____</div><div class="i1">[] 18 No religion<br />[] 97 Don't know<br />[] 99 No response</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Roman Catholic
02 Lutheran
03 Pentecostalism
04 Moravian Church
05 Reformed
06 Other Christian
07 Hinduism; Sanatan Dharm
08 Hinduism; Arya
09 Other Hindu
10 Islam; Sunni
11 Islam; Ahmadiyya
12 Other Islamic
13 Jehovah's Witnesses
14 Javanism
15 Winti
16 Other religion
17 No religion
99 Unknown
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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Definition
This variable indicates the religion of the person.
Universe
Suriname 2012: All persons

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