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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble or sorrow?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States95.4%
2 United Kingdom87.5%
3 Australia86.1%
4 Sweden 85.6%
5 Republic of Korea84.0%
6 Italy83.5%
7 Germany83.4%
8 France79.7%
9 Japan55.6%

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 = 2.093861 X +4.904
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 84180.096740 X -21037.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.607
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.368

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.231749 X +93.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.638
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.407

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.719319 X +0.892
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.703411 X +10.605
Correlation coefficient (r)0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000