Previous standard - Religion

Status

This standard was replaced by a new departmental standard on April 18, 2011.

Definition

Religion applies to the systems of faith and worship through which a person experiences a sense of spirituality or the sacred and in which a community of believers share sacraments, rituals and moral codes.

Variables


Religious denomination

Religious denomination refers to whether or not a person is affiliated with a religious group, body, sect, cult or community of belief and, if so, the name of the group.

Classification(s)

1
Affiliated with a religious group
 
1.1
Catholic
1.1.1
Other Catholic
1.1.2
Polish National Catholic Church
1.1.3
Roman Catholic
1.1.4
Ukrainian Catholic
 
1.2
Protestant
1.2.1
Adventist
1.2.2
Anglican
1.2.3
Apostolic Christian
1.2.4
Associated Gospel
1.2.5
Baptist
1.2.6
Brethren in Christ
1.2.7
Canadian Reformed Church
1.2.8
Charismatic Renewal
1.2.9
Christadelphian
1.2.10
Christian and Missionary Alliance
1.2.11
Christian Assembly
1.2.12
Christian Congregation
1.2.13
Christian, n.o.s.
1.2.14
Christian Reformed
1.2.15
Church of God
1.2.16
Church of Latter Day Saints
1.2.17
Church of the Nazarene
1.2.18
Churches of Christ, Disciples
1.2.19
Dutch Reformed Church
1.2.20
Evangelical
1.2.21
Evangelical Free Church
1.2.22
Free Methodist
1.2.23
Hutterite
1.2.24
Interdenominational
1.2.25
Jehovah's Witnesses
1.2.26
Lutheran
1.2.27
Mennonite
1.2.28
Methodist Episcopal
1.2.29
Methodist, n.o.s.
1.2.30
Mission Convent
1.2.31
Mission de l'Esprit Saint
1.2.32
Missionary Church
1.2.33
Moravian
1.2.34
New Apostolic
1.2.35
New Church
1.2.36
Non-denominational
1.2.37
Orthodox Doukhobors
1.2.38
Other Christian
1.2.39
Other Reformed
1.2.40
Pentecostal
1.2.41
People's Church
1.2.42
Plymouth Brethren
1.2.43
Presbyterian
1.2.44
Protestant, n.o.s.
1.2.45
Quakers
1.2.46
Reformed Church of America
1.2.47
Reformed Doukhobors
1.2.48
Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints
1.2.49
Salvation Army
1.2.50
Spiritualist
1.2.51
Standard Church
1.2.52
Unitarian
1.2.53
United Church
1.2.54
Wesleyan
1.2.55
Worldwide Church of God
 
1.3
Orthodox
1.3.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian
1.3.2
Armenian Orthodox
1.3.3
Coptic Orthodox
1.3.4
Greek Orthodox
1.3.5
Orthodox, n.o.s.
1.3.6
Romanian Orthodox
1.3.7
Russian Orthodox
1.3.8
Serbian Orthodox
1.3.9
Ukrainian Orthodox
 
1.4
Jewish
 
1.5
Eastern non-Christian
1.5.1
Baha'I
1.5.2
Buddhist
1.5.3
Confucian
1.5.4
Hindu
1.5.5
Islam
1.5.6
Jains
1.5.7
Other Eastern non-Christian
1.5.8
Shinto
1.5.9
Sikh
1.5.10
Taoist
 
2
Affiliated with a para-religious group
2.1
Aboriginal or First Nations spirituality
2.2
Fourth Way
2.3
Kabalarian
2.4
New Age
2.5
New Thought-Unity-Metaphysical
2.6
Pagan
2.7
Rastafarian
2.8
Satanism
2.9
Scientology
2.10
Theosophical groups
2.11
Other para-religious groups
 
3
Not affiliated with a religious or para-religious group
3.1
Agnostic
3.2
Atheist
3.3
Free Thinker
3.4
Humanist
3.5
No religion
3.6
Other, non-religious
3.7
Other, not elsewhere stated

Frequency of attendance at religious services or meetings

Frequency of attendance at religious services or meetings refers to whether or not a person attended, during the reference period (last twelve months), religious services or meetings and, if so, with what frequency.

It should be noted that the method of measurement using average attendance is preferable to using minimum attendance because the former categories are mutually exclusive. The latter, using responses such as at least once a week, at least once a month and at least once a year, are not mutually exclusive and therefore, ambiguous

Classification(s)

1
Attended during the reference year
1.1
On average more than once a week
1.2
On average once a week
1.3
On average two or three times a month
1.4
On average once a month
1.5
On average two to eleven times in the reference year
1.6
On average once in the reference year
 
2
Did not attend during the reference year
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