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Question: Do you think that churches and religious organizations in this country have too much power or too little power?
Choices: "Far too much power" "Too much power" "About the right amount of power" "Too little power" "Far too little power"
Data: % of "Far too much power" "Too much power"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Italy57.1%
3 Japan46.6%
5 Germany37.9%
6 United Kingdom37.8%
7 United States32.7%
8 France27.9%

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 data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.813606 X +7.256
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.677
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.458

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -90430.888938 X +86437.522
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.425530 X +76.980
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.991118 X +2.295
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.940
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.884

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -18.418116 X +16.681
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274