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General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1988
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SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Religion (SN1988A_RELIG)

Data file: SEN1988_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 202
End: 202
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="SN88A412">P11. Religion<br /><div class="i1">Circle the following:<br /><br />Muslims / brotherhood:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] KH: Kadria<br />[] LA: Layenne<br />[] MU: Mouride<br />[] TI: Tidiane<br />[] AM: Other Muslim</div><br /><div class="i1">Christians:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] CA: Catholic<br />[] AC: Other Christian</div><br /><div class="i1">[] AR: Other religion</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Khadrya
2 Layene
3 Murid
4 Tidiane
5 Other Muslim
6 Catholics
7 Other Christian
8 Other religion
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="SN88A412">P11) Religion<br /><br />For Muslims, circle the brotherhood declared, among the following:<br /><div class="i1">1) KH: for Khadria<br />2) LA: for Layenne<br />3) MU: for Mouride<br />4) TI: for Tidiane<br />5) AM: for other Muslims who do not belong to any of these brotherhoods.</div><br />Christians:<br /><div class="i1">6) CA: for Catholics<br />7) AC: for other Christians (Protestant, Lutherans, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">8) AR: Other religions (Jews, Buddhists, Animists, etc.)</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's religion.
Universe
Senegal 1988: All persons

concept

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