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Question: How often do you visit a holy place for religious reasons such as going to shrine/temple/church/mosque? Please do not count attending regular religious services at your usual place of worship, if you have one.
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Data: % of "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy 51.4%
2 France32.8%
5 United States27.0%
6 United Kingdom25.3%
7 Japan24.0%
9 Germany7.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.713465 X +6.731
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -31003.922646 X +58956.600
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 4.451955 X +80.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.325596 X +1.590
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.342644 X +12.213
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159