Community Survey 2016
South Africa, 2016
Get Microdata
Reference ID
zaf-statssa-cs-2016-v1
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collections
Created on
Jun 02, 2017
Last modified
Apr 30, 2020
Page views
120719
Downloads
15208
- Data files
- cs-2016-household
- cs-2016-mortality
- cs-2016-person.dta
Religious belief (ReligionBelief)
Data file: cs-2016-person.dta
Overview
Valid:
3328867
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
54
loc_end_pos:
55
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christianity | 2614167 |
78.5%
|
| 2 | Islam | 37677 |
1.1%
|
| 3 | Traditional african religion (e.g. ancestral; tribal; animis | 158780 |
4.8%
|
| 4 | Hinduism | 23697 |
0.7%
|
| 5 | Buddism | 1082 |
0%
|
| 6 | Bahaism | 361 |
0%
|
| 7 | Judaism | 1371 |
0%
|
| 8 | Atheism | 2190 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Agnosticism | 1334 |
0%
|
| 10 | No religious affiliation/belief | 363584 |
10.9%
|
| 11 | Other | 84572 |
2.5%
|
| 12 | Do not know | 39935 |
1.2%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 117 |
0%
|
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.