| Table 1.7 | |||||||||||||
| Religion of household members, 1983 to 2007-08 | |||||||||||||
| All Persons | Percentages | ||||||||||||
| Religion1 | 1983 | 1991-92 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Catholic | 43 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 42 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 45 |
| Protestant | 48 | 55 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 52 | 49 |
| Other or no religion | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Unwilling to answer | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Base=100% | 9,119 | 8,981 | 8,277 | 7,586 | 8,053 | 7,563 | 7,420 | 7,141 | 7,023 | 7,025 | 6,466 | 6,658 | 6,312 |
| Source: Continuous Household Survey | |||||||||||||
| Notes: | |||||||||||||
| 1 Religion supplemented from others in household : If missing, unwilling or undefined | |||||||||||||
| religion taken from the first person in the household to state Catholic, Protestant, None or Other | |||||||||||||