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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 Cyprus70.0%
2 Israel65.3%
3 Poland59.6%
4 Japan 57.5%
5 Italy47.9%
6 Slovenia47.6%
7 Germany46.5%
8 Ireland44.9%
9 Spain44.8%
10 Chile36.3%
11 Austria33.7%
11 Philippines33.7%
13 Norway32.0%
14 Australia31.7%
15 United States30.7%
16 France29.8%
17 Syrian Arab Republic29.6%
18 Slovakia28.6%
19 Canada28.4%
20 Portugal26.9%
21 Uruguay23.5%
22 Netherlands23.3%
23 Hungary23.2%
24 Switzerland22.7%
25 Russian Federation22.2%
26 New Zealand18.6%
27 Denmark14.5%
28 Czech Republic13.3%
29 Bulgaria9.5%
30 Latvia6.7%

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 = -0.018358 X +6.595
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 4870.680830 X +40678.234
Correlation coefficient (r)0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 10.798495 X +75.360
Correlation coefficient (r)0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.075656 X +1.644
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.543347 X +12.763
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119