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Question: Do you agree that life is meaningful to you only because God exists?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States44.8%
2 Italy35.5%
3 France 21.6%
4 United Kingdom18.5%
5 Germany13.7%
6 Japan10.7%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.480383 X +6.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.520088 X +6.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 91283.752999 X +30032.854
Correlation coefficient (r)0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.249219 X +83.533
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.396519 X +1.343
Correlation coefficient (r)0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.807892 X +10.825
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004