Community Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_CS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2017

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Religious belief (ReligionBelief)

Data file: cs-2016-person

Overview

Valid: 3328867

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 54

End: 55

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Christianity	2614167	78.5%
2	Islam	37677	1.1%
3	Traditional african religion (e.g. ancestral; tribal; animis	158780	4.8%
4	Hinduism	23697	0.7%
5	Buddism	1082	0%
6	Bahaism	361	0%
7	Judaism	1371	0%
8	Atheism	2190	0.1%
9	Agnosticism	1334	0%
10	No religious affiliation/belief	363584	10.9%
11	Other	84572	2.5%
12	Do not know	39935	1.2%
99	Unspecified	117	0%

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.

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