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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to meet the right kind of people?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea61.3%
2 United States59.1%
3 Italy52.2%
4 United Kingdom40.4%
5 Germany37.0%
6 Australia32.5%
7 France21.2%
8 Japan21.0%
9 Sweden 18.3%

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 = -0.999119 X +7.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5119.166584 X +46301.140
Correlation coefficient (r)0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.978294 X +84.593
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.041389 X +1.881
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 8.324389 X +8.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080