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Question: Do you agree that religious leaders should not try to influence how people vote in elections?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany86.0%
2 France85.6%
3 Japan 85.3%
4 Italy81.4%
5 Australia81.0%
6 United Kingdom76.1%
7 Republic of Korea75.4%
8 Sweden74.1%
9 United States72.8%

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 = -2.418871 X +8.556
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -124507.189648 X +147539.678
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 19.107155 X +66.696
Correlation coefficient (r)0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.845501 X +0.810
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -40.777881 X +43.703
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194