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VIII Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico de 1970. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1970
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BRA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Religion (BR1970A_RELIGION)

Data file: BRA1970_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 191
End: 191
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BR70A406"><span class="h3">7. Religion</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Roman Catholic<br />[] 2 Evangelical Protestant<br />[] 3 Spiritist<br />[] 4 Other<br />[] 5 No religion</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Roman Catholic
2 Evangelical Protestant
3 Spiritist
4 Other religion
5 Not religious
9 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="BR70A406"><span class="h3">Question 7 - Religion</span><br /><br />Record:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Roman Catholic</span>- those who declare that they are Roman Catholic Apostolic, Christian Catholic, Roman Catholic, or simply Catholic;</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 32]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Evangelical Protestant</span>t - Those who declare they belong to an Evangelical or Protestant church (Anglican, Baptist, Biblical, Calvinist, Lutheran Catholic, Protestant Catholic, Christian Congregation of Brazil, Congregational, Brazilian Baptist Convention, Evangelical Believer, Congregational Christian, Evangelical Christian, Presbyterian Christian, Reformed Christian, Episcopal, Sunday School, Church of God, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc.)<br /><span class="em">Spiritist</span> - those who state Spiritist, Spiritualist Christian, Spiritualist, Kardecist, Umbandist, Rational Spirit, etc.;<br /><span class="em">Other</span> - for those who declare: Adventist, Brahmanist, Buddhist, Brazilian Catholic, Belief in Jehovah, Esoteric, Israelite [Jewish], Mohammedan [Islam], Mormon, New Jerusalem, Orthodox, Positivist, Rosa Cruz, Sabbathist, etc.;<br /><span class="em">No religion</span> - those who state No Religion, Agnostic, Atheist, Lay, Free Thinker, Rationalist, etc.</div><br /><br />In cases of doubt in defining the religion of minors, the mother's religion should be marked.<br /></svar>

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Definition
This variable indicates the religion of the individual.
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Brazil 1970: All persons

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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