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Question: How much confidence do you have in churches and religious organizations?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy72.1%
2 Australia68.8%
3 Canada65.6%
4 United States61.3%
5 Germany49.8%
6 France 48.7%
7 Japan27.1%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.341002 X +5.874
Correlation coefficient (r)0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 44252.238156 X +25878.671
Correlation coefficient (r)0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.039566 X +84.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.104493 X +1.477
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -6.782021 X +13.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109