Datatypes

Religion

ID religion

DatatypePersonal data (PII)categoricalDraft

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Religion, religious denomination or worldview of a person or a group, such as Catholic, Sunni Islam or Buddhism. Censuses and surveys often record it. Under the GDPR, data that reveals a person's religious beliefs is a special category of personal data.

Categories
Person related, Personally identifiable information
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
W3C DPV
pd:Religion
Sherlock and Sato
religion
Wikidata
P140
Quality
75/100 · missing: regexp, negative example
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
Collibra Data Classification, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, Doduo, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), Oracle Data Safe, Sato, Sherlock

Examples

ValueDescription
Catholicdenomination
Evangelical Protestantdenomination group used in surveys
Buddhismreligion

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianРелигия

Sources

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