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Question: About how often do you pray?
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month" "2-3 times a month" "Nearly every week" "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Data: % of "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.3%
2 Italy54.5%
3 United Kingdom35.6%
4 Republic of Korea34.2%
5 Australia30.1%
6 Japan29.7%
7 Germany29.2%
8 France24.2%
9 Sweden 14.9%

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 = -0.634033 X +6.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 28957.246176 X +37772.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.994503 X +85.550
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.719
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.517

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.219409 X +1.564
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.537534 X +11.379
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000