2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000

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MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Religion (MY2000A_RELIG)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 247

End: 247

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="MY00A438">C9. What is your religion?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Islam<br />[] 2 Christianity<br />[] 3 Hinduism<br />[] 4 Buddhism<br />[] 5 Confucianism/Taoism, other traditional Chinese religion<br />[] 6 Tribal/fork religion<br />[] 7 Others (Specify) ____<br />[] 8 No religion</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Islam
2	Christian
3	Hindu
4	Buddhism
5	Confucianism / Taoism / Traditional Chinese religion
6	Tribal/Folk Religion
7	Others
8	No Religion
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's religion.

Universe

Malaysia 2000: All persons

concept

Concept

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

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