 According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 5.52% of the population believe in and are involved in ancestor veneration, while 3.05% of the population identify as Christian, mostly of the Catholic Church.Local worship of deities in the region began to organise into "benevolent churches" as a reaction to Catholicism in the Qing dynasty.The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 90.61% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in worship of nature deities, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and folk religious sects.