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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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Reference ID
SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Aug 01, 2025
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  • SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat
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Religion (SL2015A_RELIG)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 230
End: 231
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em"> All persons [Questions P01-P20]</span></p>

<p>[Section II was answered for all persons who selected living in occupied housing units in question I15]</p>

<p>P07. Religions</p>
<div class="i1">What is [the respondent's] religion? ____<br /><br />Write the code of the religion _ _<br /><br />[] 01 Catholic<br />[] 02 Anglican<br />[] 03 Methodist<br />[] 04 SDA<br />[] 05 Pentacostal<br />[] 06 Other Christian<br />[] 07 Islam<br />[] 08 Bahai<br />[] 09 Traditional<br />[] 10 Other<br />[] 11 No Religion</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Catholic
02 Anglican
03 Methodist
04 Seventh-day Adventists (SDA)
05 Pentecostal
06 Other Christian
07 Islam
08 Bahai
09 Traditional
10 Other
11 No religion
99 NIU (not in universe)
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
<span class="h2">Section 2: Population characteristics</span></p>

<p>Columns (P01) to (P20) -- These should provide particulars of all persons who slept in the household on census night. The questions therefore apply to all persons irrespective of age or sex, except P13 which applies to persons 5 years and above.</p>

<p><span class="em">Column (P07) --Religion</span>
<br />101. This question seeks to find out the religious beliefs of respondents. You should therefore ask, 'what is (Name's) religion?' Record the appropriate code from the code list. Probe for the denomination. For example, a person says he/she is Christian, ask for the denomination, i.e. whether Catholic or Anglican etc. For Muslims record code "07".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the religion of the person.
Universe
Sierra Leone 2015: Persons in occupied private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

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