IX General Population and Housing Census 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Mexico, 1970

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Reference ID

MEX_1970_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Religion (MX1970A_0406)

Data file: MEX1970-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 175

End: 175

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

5. Religion

What religion does this person have? Mark with an X

[ ] 1 Catholic
[ ] 2 Protestant or Evangelist
[ ] 3 Jewish
[ ] 4 Other
[ ] 5 None

Categories

Value	Category
1	Catholic
2	Protestant
3	Jewish
4	Other
5	None
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

Religion

Column 5

Ask each person what their religion is, keeping in mind that the members of a family can have different religions.

Remember that for the religion "protestant or evangelist," the following should also be marked: Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Sunday-Ist ["Sabatista"], Quaker, Jehovah Witness, Seventh-Day Adventist, Anglican, Christian Scientist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Episcopalian, etc.

Under "other" the following religions should be marked: Mohammed, Buddhist, Taoist, Shintoist, Confucius, Islamic, Muslim, Brahman, Orthodox, etc.

The circle in front of "none" should be marked for the people who declare that they do not have a religion, or who, even though they are believers, do not follow the norms or precepts of any specific religion.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates religion.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

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

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