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Question: How much confidence do you have in churches and religious organizations?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States78.9%
2 Italy71.6%
3 Republic of Korea67.7%
4 United Kingdom62.8%
5 Germany60.4%
6 Sweden56.2%
7 Australia55.3%
8 France51.4%
9 Japan 38.1%

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 = 0.188109 X +6.514
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 43109.622238 X +22271.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.637551 X +90.152
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.673
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.453

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.434966 X +1.747
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.803724 X +9.495
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005