THE ETHNIC AND CONFESSIONAL STRUCTURE OF MUREŞ COUNTY IN 2011
At the 2011 Census, ethnicity, language, and religion registration were done based on each person's statement. Those who refused to declare these three characteristics, that is the people whose information had been collected indirectly from administrative sources, were included in the undecla...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Oradea
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie |
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| Online Access: | http://geografie-uoradea.ro/Reviste/Anale/Art/2014-1/AUOG_644_Tofan.pdf |
| Summary: | At the 2011 Census, ethnicity, language, and religion registration were done based on each
person's statement. Those who refused to declare these three characteristics, that is the people whose
information had been collected indirectly from administrative sources, were included in the undeclared
category. Therefore, the two structures (ethnicity and religious) are calculated based on the total
number of declared people and not on the stable population. For the ethnic structure of Mureş County,
there is available information for 527 299 people (out of total of 550 846 people), Romanians
numbering 277 372 people (52.6%), Hungarians 200 858 people (38.1%), Gypsies (Rroma) 46 947
people (8.9%), followed by Germans (1 478 people, 0.3%), and other ethnic groups (Jews, Italians,
Turks, Russian-Lipovans, Ukrainians, Polish, Armenians, Bulgarians, Czeanga, Serbians, Slovaks,
Greeks, Chinese, Czechs, Croatians, Tartars, Macedonians and other ethnicities - 644 people (0.1%).
Religion was declared by 525 764 people, most being affiliated to the Orthodox Church (281 113
people, 53.5%), followed by Reformed (138 129 people, 26.3%), Roman-Catholics (48 530 people,
9.2%), Unitarians (12 200 people, 2.3%), Greek-Catholics (11 077 people, 2.1%), while the category
comprised of other religions, without religion and atheists reached 34 715 people (6.6%). |
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| ISSN: | 1221-1273 2065-3409 |