South African Census 1996, 10% Sample
South Africa, 1996
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zaf-statssa-census-1996-v1.3
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Religion (religion)
Data file: census-1996-person-v1.3
Overview
Valid:
3621201
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
38
loc_end_pos:
39
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Other | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Dutch Reformed churches | 316582 |
8.7%
|
| 2 | Reformed churches | 17314 |
0.5%
|
| 3 | Nederduits Hervormde Kerk | 15556 |
0.4%
|
| 4 | Anglican Church | 132566 |
3.7%
|
| 5 | Church of England in SA | 10634 |
0.3%
|
| 6 | International Fellowship of Christian Ch | 3501 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | Methodist Church of SA | 244424 |
6.7%
|
| 8 | Presbyterian churches | 58404 |
1.6%
|
| 9 | United Congregational Church of SA | 30795 |
0.9%
|
| 10 | Lutheran Church of Southern Africa | 92490 |
2.6%
|
| 11 | Roman Catholic Church | 299463 |
8.3%
|
| 12 | Apostolic Faith Mission of SA | 99734 |
2.8%
|
| 13 | Other Apostolic churches | 274086 |
7.6%
|
| 14 | Baptist churches of Southern Africa | 27189 |
0.8%
|
| 15 | Pinkster Protestante Kerk | 6210 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk | 2068 |
0.1%
|
| 17 | Full Gospel Church of God in Sthrn Afric | 21035 |
0.6%
|
| 18 | Greek Orthodox | 1865 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints | 858 |
0%
|
| 20 | Other Pentecostal churches | 4760 |
0.1%
|
| 21 | Salvation Army United Church | 4604 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | Seventh-Day Adventist Church | 8360 |
0.2%
|
| 23 | New Apostolic Church | 19488 |
0.5%
|
| 24 | Assemblies of God of SA | 26486 |
0.7%
|
| 25 | St Engena's Zion Christian Church | 1133 |
0%
|
| 26 | Zion Christian Church | 345933 |
9.6%
|
| 27 | Bandla Lama Nazaretha | 39994 |
1.1%
|
| 28 | African Methodist Episcopal Church | 26190 |
0.7%
|
| 29 | St John's Apostolic Church | 19252 |
0.5%
|
| 30 | International Pentecost Church | 12298 |
0.3%
|
| 31 | Other African Independent churches | 19895 |
0.5%
|
| 32 | Other Christian churches | 113874 |
3.1%
|
| 33 | African traditional belief | 1607 |
0%
|
| 34 | Judaism | 6224 |
0.2%
|
| 35 | Buddhism | 204 |
0%
|
| 36 | Taoist | 387 |
0%
|
| 37 | Confucian | 31 |
0%
|
| 38 | Hinduism | 50699 |
1.4%
|
| 39 | Islam | 50417 |
1.4%
|
| 40 | Bahais | 182 |
0%
|
| 41 | New Age | 263 |
0%
|
| 42 | Jehovah's Witnesses | 14711 |
0.4%
|
| 43 | Other Non-Christian religions | 141 |
0%
|
| 44 | Other Methodist churches | 8780 |
0.2%
|
| 45 | Other Presbyterian churches | 7354 |
0.2%
|
| 46 | Other Congregational churches | 7374 |
0.2%
|
| 47 | Other Lutheran churches | 1601 |
0%
|
| 48 | Other Catholic churches | 4741 |
0.1%
|
| 49 | Other Baptist churches | 12620 |
0.3%
|
| 50 | Other Pentecostal churches | 30658 |
0.8%
|
| 51 | Other Orthodox churches | 1260 |
0%
|
| 52 | Other (Seventh-Day) Adventist churches | 7014 |
0.2%
|
| 53 | Other African Apostolic churches | 1228 |
0%
|
| 54 | Other Assemblies | 6546 |
0.2%
|
| 55 | Other Zionist churches | 190183 |
5.3%
|
| 57 | Christian Scientist | 190 |
0%
|
| 58 | Christian centres | 9191 |
0.3%
|
| 59 | Ethiopian type churches | 42963 |
1.2%
|
| 60 | Ethnic churches | 3224 |
0.1%
|
| 61 | Other Evangelical churches | 56434 |
1.6%
|
| 62 | Other Charismatic churches | 841 |
0%
|
| 63 | No religion | 412416 |
11.4%
|
| 64 | Refused | 12183 |
0.3%
|
| 65 | Other | 0 |
0%
|
| 98 | N/A: Institution | 63140 |
1.7%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 319353 |
8.8%
|
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.