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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to meet the right kind of people?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States59.1%
3 Italy52.2%
4 United Kingdom40.4%
5 Germany37.0%
7 France 21.2%
8 Japan21.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.669076 X +6.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 68534.746734 X +23890.712
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -9.709850 X +85.287
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.660
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.436

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.055921 X +1.520
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.742588 X +9.984
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005