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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to make friends?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States83.0%
3 United Kingdom 72.7%
6 Italy57.7%
7 Germany51.6%
8 France36.5%
9 Japan29.6%

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 data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.884918 X +6.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 62470.590146 X +15791.813
Correlation coefficient (r)0.760
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.578

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -8.281320 X +86.120
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.738
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.545

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.293144 X +1.337
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.568776 X +8.999
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001