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I wonder why the sources used by this page show data that is contrary to the data showed by the sources of the Irreligion by country page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vernicht (talk • contribs) 22:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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We now have a poll (GIS XXI, 2011) with the following figures:

Catholic - 71%
Other Christian 17% (this is Protestant plus what religions the poll classifies as Christian [i.e., does this include Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses])
Agnostic/Indifferent - 6%
Other religion - 2%
Atheist - 2%
Santero - 1%
NS/NC - 1%
Jewish - 0%

and the Latinobarometro (2014, page 21) poll which has

Catholic - 79%
Protestant - 13%
atheist/agnostic/nothing - 6%
Other - 2%
NS/NC - 1%

Note the categories are different and the questions were almost certainly worded differently. However which should we use for the pie chart. The first poll is older but has more information. The Latinbarometro poll is newer but fewer categories.

I also noticed that @Gabrielsanchz put in a table; however, mingled the 2011 poll data with data from the 2007 State department report. I removed the latter information since one shouldn't mingle sources in a table like this unless we know the original source is the same. The most recent state department report http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom/index.htm?year=2014&dlid=238580 has 96% of the population as Catholic so I'm not sure I trust any of their numbers. It also states the government hasn't provided census info on religious affiliation. --Erp (talk) 03:38, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]