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Question: About how often do you pray?
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month" "2-3 times a month" "Nearly every week" "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Data: % of "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines88.9%
2 Ireland70.4%
3 Uruguay65.0%
4 Poland64.6%
5 Chile59.8%
6 Italy53.3%
7 Portugal53.1%
8 Slovakia42.4%
9 Syrian Arab Republic40.4%
10 Hungary39.6%
11 Austria37.4%
12 Spain36.8%
13 Canada33.9%
14 Australia33.8%
15 Netherlands32.5%
16 Cyprus32.2%
17 Israel32.1%
18 New Zealand30.7%
19 Japan 28.2%
20 United States26.7%
21 Slovenia26.1%
22 Latvia24.0%
23 France23.2%
24 Norway21.5%
25 Czech Republic20.9%
26 Bulgaria19.1%
27 Germany19.0%
28 Russian Federation18.9%
29 Denmark18.0%
30 Switzerland15.3%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.631850 X +6.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -42088.010552 X +57804.394
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.004982 X +81.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.411160 X +1.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.204705 X +11.864
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065