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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble or sorrow?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States95.4%
2 United Kingdom87.5%
6 Italy83.5%
7 Germany83.4%
8 France79.7%
9 Japan55.6%

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 = 1.762158 X +5.106
Correlation coefficient (r)0.849
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.721

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 92891.835061 X -24837.882
Correlation coefficient (r)0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -12.982545 X +92.046
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.760
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.578

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.866916 X +0.797
Correlation coefficient (r)0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -3.382232 X +12.048
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015