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Question: Have you belonged to a church or other religious organization?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States61.6%
2 Canada61.3%
3 Sweden60.5%
4 Germany51.0%
5 United Kingdom34.5%
6 Australia32.8%
7 Republic of Korea25.1%
8 France 22.8%
9 Japan8.4%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.526645 X +6.084
Correlation coefficient (r)0.710
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.504

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 52710.146717 X +29613.186
Correlation coefficient (r)0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.653835 X +84.558
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.506410 X +1.303
Correlation coefficient (r)0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.777219 X +12.957
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017