Census of Population of Ireland 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2006

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Reference ID

IRL_2006_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Office, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Religion (IE2006A_0428)

Data file: IRL2006-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 235

End: 235

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

B. Person Form

13. What is your religion?

Check one box only

[] 1 Roman Catholic
[] 2 Church of Ireland
[] 3 Presbyterian
[] 4 Methodist
[] 5 Islam
[] 6 Other, write in your religion
______

Categories

Value	Category
1	Roman Catholic
2	Church of Ireland (including Protestant)
3	Other stated religions
4	No religion
8	Unknown
9	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

Question 13 provides information on the number of people of each religion or religious denomination. Taken in conjunction with information on country of birth, nationality and ethnicity information on religion will help complete the picture in relation to a changing society.
The religions listed have been chosen to cover the majority denominations. People are free to check the box other and write in a description of their religion where it is not covered by one of the tick boxes 1 to 5. It is important to point out that the question does not refer to frequency of attendance at church.

13 What is your religion?

Check one box only
[] 1 Roman Catholic
[] 2 Church of Ireland
[] 3 Presbyterian
[] 4 Methodist
[] 5 Islam
[] 6 Other, write in your religion ______
[] 7 No religion

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the religion of the person.

Universe

Non-absent persons

concept

Concept

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

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