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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States64.7%
3 Japan45.1%
4 Italy40.7%
5 United Kingdom 38.2%
6 France30.9%
9 Germany21.3%

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 data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.221322 X +6.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 63172.123541 X +24901.559
Correlation coefficient (r)0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.468324 X +84.549
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.072515 X +1.469
Correlation coefficient (r)0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 14.980670 X +3.299
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356