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Question: How important is a person's religion for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States12.2%
2 Republic of Korea11.7%
3 United Kingdom8.8%
4 Germany7.3%
5 Italy5.4%
6 Australia5.2%
7 Sweden4.7%
8 France 4.3%
9 Japan3.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.458468 X +6.800
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 127547.151708 X +39267.123
Correlation coefficient (r)0.269
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -49.472285 X +85.418
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.648
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.420

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.546384 X +1.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 79.498465 X +5.584
Correlation coefficient (r)0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270