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National Censuses 2017: 12th Population Census, 7th Housing Census, 3rd Indigenous Communities Census, and 1st Farmer Communities Census - IPUMS Subset

Peru, 2017
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PER_2017_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Religion (PE2017A_RELIG)

Data file: PER2017_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 342
End: 342
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Section V. Characteristics of the population (continued)</span></p>

<p><span class="em">26. What is your religion?</span><div class="i1">(Fill one oval only)<br /><br />[] 1 Catholic<br />[] 2 Evangelical<br />[] 3 Other (specify) ____<br />[] 4 None</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Catholic
2 Evangelical
3 Other
4 None
5 Christian
6 Adventist
7 Jehovahs Witness
8 Mormons
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
<span class="em">For persons of 12 years of age and older</span>
<br />[Questions 24 to 26 are asked of persons age 12 or older]</p>

<p><span class="h3">Question 26: What is your religion? </span></p>

<p>If the respondent answers that he/she is an Adventist, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, Buddhist, Israelite, Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Islam or Hare Krishna, agnostic, among others, then fill in the oval of option 3, "Other" and write down the answer accordingly.</p>

<p>If he/she answers that he/she does not profess any religion, fill in the oval of the option 4, "none".

Description

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Peru 2017: Persons age 12+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

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