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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to meet the right kind of people?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia88.7%
2 Philippines85.5%
3 Dominican Republic80.7%
4 South Africa78.1%
5 Sri Lanka77.1%
6 Kenya76.5%
7 Chile73.1%
8 Tanzania70.7%
9 Taiwan70.6%
10 Portugal67.9%
11 Turkiye62.9%
12 Republic of Korea61.3%
13 Venezuela60.5%
14 United States59.1%
15 Russian Federation57.6%
16 Ukraine56.5%
17 Slovenia 55.9%
18 Mexico55.6%
19 Poland53.1%
20 Italy52.2%
21 Ireland49.0%
22 Israel47.8%
23 Spain44.3%
24 Hungary43.6%
24 Slovakia43.6%
26 Switzerland43.0%
27 Cyprus41.2%
28 New Zealand40.5%
29 United Kingdom40.4%
30 Germany37.0%
31 Uruguay36.5%
32 Latvia34.3%
33 Australia32.5%
34 Czech Republic31.4%
35 Austria30.7%
36 Netherlands29.8%
37 Denmark23.7%
38 Norway22.6%
39 Finland21.6%
40 France21.2%
41 Japan21.0%
42 Belgium18.8%
43 Sweden18.3%

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 195 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -3.054869 X +7.808
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.676
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.457

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -81866.585632 X +76519.578
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -19.483263 X +87.504
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.659
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.434

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 1.599293 X +0.962
Correlation coefficient (r)0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -3.711098 X +11.966
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020