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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States64.7%
2 Australia47.2%
3 Japan 45.1%
4 Italy40.7%
5 United Kingdom38.2%
6 France30.9%
7 Sweden29.7%
8 Republic of Korea24.3%
9 Germany21.3%

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.151877 X +6.569
Correlation coefficient (r)0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 65635.799062 X +23303.215
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.405922 X +85.509
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.520
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.270

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.582421 X +1.263
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.653468 X +11.433
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000