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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy53.3%
2 Canada33.9%
3 Japan28.2%
4 United States26.7%
5 France 23.2%
6 Germany19.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.628710 X +6.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.798901 X +6.802
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -45664.314345 X +66393.389
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.300
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.090

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.788689 X +79.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.975006 X +1.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -20.106443 X +16.451
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.615
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.378