Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
ASK IF CHRISTIAN
Q35 As I read a list, please tell me which denomination or church, if any, you identify with MOST CLOSELY.
(READ LIST) (SHOW CARD) (INTERVIEWER INSTRUCTION: If respondent names more than
one of groups in list, probe to learn which denomination or church the respondent identifies with
most and record that response here. Record other identities in Q35b)
Catholic
Anglican/Episcopalian
Baptist
Lutheran
Methodist (for example, African Methodist Episcopal – AME)*
Presbyterian
Pentecostal (for example, Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ, International Church of the
Foursquare Gospel, United Pentecostal Church)**
African Independent Church/African Initiated Church (for example, an Aladura Church, Celestial Church
of Christ, Cherubim and Seraphim, Zion Christian Church, Zion Apostolic Church, African Apostolic
Church of Johan Maranke, Church of Jesus Christ on Earth of the Prophet Simon Kimbangu –
Kimbanguist)^
Jehovah’s Witness
Seventh-day Adventist
Mormon (for example, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Mennonite
Coptic Christian, Greek Orthodox, or Russian Orthodox
Quaker/Society of Friends
Congregationalist
Dutch Reformed Church, Uniting Reformed Church, or Christian Reformed Church^^
Nondenominational church
Something else (SPECIFY)
None in particular
Just a Protestant, not further specified (VOLUNTEERED) (DO NOT READ)
Just a Christian, not further specified (VOLUNTEERED) (DO NOT READ)
Don’t know (DO NOT READ)
Refused (DO NOT READ)
RECORD RESPONSE FOR “SOMETHING ELSE” IN Q35 (Q35=91)
Q35a [RECORD RESPONSE]
RECORD RESPONSE IF VOLUNTEERED MORE THAN ONE RESPONSE IN Q35BOT
Q35b [RECORD RESPONSE]
ASK IF MUSLIM
Q37 Are you Sunni (for example, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi, or Hanbali), Shia (for example, Ithnashari/Twelver or
Ismaili/Sevener), or something else? (SHOW CARD) (INTERVIEWER INSTRUCTION: If
respondent names more than one of traditions in list, probe to learn which the respondent identifies
with most and record that response here. Record other identities in Q37b)
RECORD RESPONSE FOR “Something else” IN Q37 (Q37=91)
Q37a [RECORD RESPONSE]
RECORD RESPONSE IF VOLUNTEERED MORE THAN ONE RESPONSE IN Q37
Q37b [RECORD RESPONSE]
* Modified in Ghana as follows: Methodist (For example, African Methodist Episcopal – AME, Methodist Church
of Ghana).
** Modified in Uganda as follows: Pentecostal (for example, Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ,
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, United Pentecostal Church, Kampala Pentecostal Church, Elim
Pentecostal Fellowship of Uganda, Miracle Centre Church).
^ Modified in Uganda as follows: African Independent Church/African Initiated Church (for example, an Aladura
Church, Celestial Church of Christ, Cherubim and Seraphim, African Israel Church Nineveh, Zion Christian Church,
Zion Apostolic Church, African Apostolic Church of Johan Maranke, Church of Jesus Christ on Earth of the Prophet
Simon Kimbangu – Kimbanguist).
^^ Only asked in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia.
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