South African Census 1980
South Africa, 1980
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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3
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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)
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Oct 18, 2012
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Religion (RELIGION)
Data file: sa-census-1980-v1.3
Overview
Valid:
25016525
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
39
loc_end_pos:
40
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 38
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk | 3493552 |
14%
|
| 2 | Gereformeerde Kerk | 198776 |
0.8%
|
| 3 | Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk | 288958 |
1.2%
|
| 4 | Church of the Province of SA | 478363 |
1.9%
|
| 5 | Church of England in SA | 72814 |
0.3%
|
| 6 | Church of England (so stated) | 289647 |
1.2%
|
| 7 | Anglican (so stated) | 805793 |
3.2%
|
| 8 | Methodist Church of SA | 2231981 |
8.9%
|
| 9 | Presbyterian Church of SA | 531876 |
2.1%
|
| 10 | United Congregational Church of Southern Africa | 492918 |
2%
|
| 11 | Lutheran Church | 888664 |
3.6%
|
| 12 | Roman Catholic | 2406699 |
9.6%
|
| 13 | Apostolic Faith Mission of SA | 284168 |
1.1%
|
| 14 | Other Apostolic Churches | 485022 |
1.9%
|
| 15 | Baptist | 257583 |
1%
|
| 16 | Pentecostal Protestant Church | 68364 |
0.3%
|
| 17 | Faith Mission Healers | 3167 |
0%
|
| 18 | Full Gospel Church | 185852 |
0.7%
|
| 19 | Greek Church | 31005 |
0.1%
|
| 20 | Mormon (Latter Day Saints) | 9573 |
0%
|
| 21 | Pentecostal Church | 50231 |
0.2%
|
| 22 | Salvation Army | 45614 |
0.2%
|
| 23 | Seventh Day Adventists | 81307 |
0.3%
|
| 24 | SA General Mission | 7211 |
0%
|
| 25 | Swiss Church | 83878 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | Assemblies of God | 144662 |
0.6%
|
| 27 | Zion Christian Church | 531183 |
2.1%
|
| 28 | Other Black Independant Churches | 4674704 |
18.7%
|
| 29 | Other Christian Churches | 411539 |
1.6%
|
| 30 | Jewish/Hebrew | 121088 |
0.5%
|
| 31 | Buddhist | 2815 |
0%
|
| 32 | Confucian | 7164 |
0%
|
| 33 | Hindu | 528807 |
2.1%
|
| 34 | Islam | 352993 |
1.4%
|
| 35 | Other beliefs | 38273 |
0.2%
|
| 36 | Object to state | 686005 |
2.7%
|
| 37 | No religion, no church (so stated) | 565871 |
2.3%
|
| 38 | 3178405 |
12.7%
|
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.