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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.2%
2 Italy42.4%
3 Japan38.7%
4 United Kingdom35.7%
5 France 34.3%
6 Germany28.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.197973 X +6.450
Correlation coefficient (r)0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 94467.516612 X +11517.740
Correlation coefficient (r)0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -12.177293 X +86.545
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.306231 X +1.373
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 16.273152 X +2.639
Correlation coefficient (r)0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339