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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Astrology - the study of star signs - has some scientific truth"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany56.4%
2 United States52.7%
3 United Kingdom45.5%
4 Japan 45.2%
5 Canada44.9%
6 Australia36.3%
7 Italy35.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.271705 X +6.525
Correlation coefficient (r)0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 57993.453797 X +25012.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -20.690775 X +90.912
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.795366 X +1.138
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 16.432730 X +2.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138