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Question: Do you think that churches and religious organizations in this country have too much power or too little power?
Choices: "Far too much power" "Too much power" "About the right amount of power" "Too little power" "Far too little power"
Data: % of "Far too much power" "Too much power"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland61.2%
2 Republic of Korea60.9%
3 Italy57.1%
4 Spain54.1%
5 Israel53.5%
6 Turkiye49.1%
7 Slovenia48.0%
8 Chile46.7%
9 Japan 46.6%
10 Mexico44.5%
11 Australia44.2%
12 Ireland41.9%
13 Austria41.4%
14 Belgium40.4%
15 Germany37.9%
16 United Kingdom37.8%
17 Norway36.1%
18 Slovakia34.7%
19 Netherlands33.5%
20 United States32.7%
21 Finland30.8%
22 Portugal30.6%
23 Hungary30.3%
24 France27.9%
25 Denmark26.4%
26 Sweden25.1%
27 New Zealand23.3%
28 Czech Republic22.3%
29 Switzerland22.2%
30 Latvia10.9%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.404633 X +7.227
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -49344.845054 X +65720.499
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.975785 X +79.233
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.218356 X +1.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.041546 X +12.236
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038