Ethnic, language, religious group

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Ethnic, language, religious group

• Use of 2000 census recommendations and proposals
  for improvement

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Ethnic group
Total 46 countries Number of countries of total
Ethnic group total 29 63
According to recommendations 25 86
Other approach 4 16
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Language group
Total 46 countries Number of countries of total
Language group total 35 76
Mother tongue 21 60
Main language 3 8
Most spoken language 11 31
Knowledge of language 19 54
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Religious group
Total 46 countries Number of countries of total
Religious group total 24 52
Formal membership 6 25
Religious belief 9 38
Participation in religious practice - 0
Other concepts 9 38
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Proposals ethnic group

• Enlarge paragraph on ethnic groups
• Proposal of a definition
• Insist on the distinction from questions on
  language, religion and nationality (in the sense
  of citizenship!)
• Delete notion of national group (?)
• Insist on the need for explanation of concepts
  and documentation of classification procedures
• Introduce optional question on ethnic
  origin/ancestry
• Adress issue of children from mixed marriages and
  problem of multiple identiites
• What about registers can data on ethnicity be
  collected through registers (?)

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Proposals language groups

• Insist on need for clear spelling out definitions
  during field work and documentation of
  classification procedures
• Drop priority of main language before mother
  tongue and priority of spoken language before
  knowledge of languages
• Propose a common classification of languages?
• What about registers Can they give information
  on language?

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Proposals religious groups

• Change list of proposed questions drop question
  on practices.
• Introduce questions on identification with
  community or denomination and question on
  denomination in which a person was brought up
• Possibility to answer  none 
• Insist on need for documentation of
  classifications
• Propose a common classification of religious
  denominations (?)
• What about registers can they give information
  on religion?