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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.5%
2 Italy64.9%
3 Canada47.0%
4 United Kingdom40.8%
5 Japan32.0%
6 Germany30.6%
7 France 29.3%

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.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.193389 X +6.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.181695 X +6.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 55831.378012 X +26796.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.608
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.370

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.639291 X +83.885
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.028685 X +1.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.781167 X +10.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008