1980 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1980

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MYS_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Religion (MY1980A_RELIG)

Data file: MYS1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 188

End: 188

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

<svar a="all" v="MY80A406">8. What is your religion?<br /><div class="i1">[] Islam<br />[] Christianity<br />[] Hinduism<br />[] Buddhism<br />[] Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese religion<br />[] Tribal, fork religion<br />[] Other<br />[] No religion</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Islam
2	Christianity
3	Hinduism
4	Buddhism
5	Confucianism/Taois
6	Tribal/Folk Religion
7	Other
8	No Religion

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 religion of the person.

Universe

Malaysia 1980: All persons

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