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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan57.5%
2 Italy47.9%
3 Germany46.5%
4 United States30.7%
5 France 29.8%
6 Canada28.4%

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 = -1.604730 X +7.217
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.776
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.602

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.113911 X +7.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.831
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.691

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -95012.827946 X +90498.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.623
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.388

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 9.205138 X +78.156
Correlation coefficient (r)0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.115606 X +1.836
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.653
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.426

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.909099 X +10.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001