Afrobarometer Survey 2021
Round 8
South Africa, 2021
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ZAF_2021_AFB-R8_v01_M
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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Apr 19, 2023
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Q98a. Religion of respondent (Q98A)
Data file: afrobarometer_release-dataset_saf_r8_en_2023-03-01.sav
Overview
Valid:
1600
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1189
End:
1192
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | None | 287 |
17.9%
|
| 1 | Christian only (i.e., respondents says only “Christian”, without identifying a specific sub-group) | 746 |
46.6%
|
| 2 | Roman Catholic | 73 |
4.6%
|
| 3 | Orthodox | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | Coptic | 0 |
0%
|
| 5 | Anglican | 26 |
1.6%
|
| 6 | Lutheran | 10 |
0.6%
|
| 7 | Methodist | 45 |
2.8%
|
| 8 | Presbyterian | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Baptist | 13 |
0.8%
|
| 10 | Quaker / Friends | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Mennonite | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | Evangelical | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Pentecostal (e.g., “Born Again” and/or “Saved”) | 10 |
0.6%
|
| 14 | Independent (e.g., “African Independent Church”) | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | Jehovah’s Witness | 7 |
0.4%
|
| 16 | Seventh Day Adventist | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | Mormon | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | Muslim only (i.e., respondents says only “Muslim”, without identifying a specific sub-group) | 51 |
3.2%
|
| 19 | Sunni only (i.e., respondents says only “Sunni” or “Sunni Muslim”, without identifying a specific sub-group) | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 20 | Ismaeli | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 21 | Mouridiya Brotherhood | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Tijaniya Brotherhood | 0 |
0%
|
| 23 | Qadiriya Brotherhood | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | Shia | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | Traditional / ethnic religion | 28 |
1.8%
|
| 26 | Hindu | 22 |
1.4%
|
| 27 | Bahai | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 28 | Agnostic (Do not know if there is a God) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 29 | Atheist (Do not believe in a God) | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 30 | Dutch Reformed | 14 |
0.9%
|
| 31 | Calvinist | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 32 | Church of Christ | 12 |
0.8%
|
| 33 | Zionist Christian Church | 120 |
7.5%
|
| 34 | Jewish | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 9995 | Other | 55 |
3.4%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 31 |
1.9%
|
| 9999 | Don't know | 18 |
1.1%
|
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.