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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Astrology - the study of star signs - has some scientific truth"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Slovenia87.6%
2 Czech Republic76.9%
3 Hungary72.8%
4 Germany56.4%
4 Poland56.4%
6 Norway55.5%
7 Ireland54.0%
8 United States52.7%
9 Israel51.4%
10 Netherlands49.0%
11 New Zealand48.2%
12 Spain47.0%
13 United Kingdom45.5%
14 Japan45.2%
15 Canada44.9%
16 Australia 36.3%
17 Italy35.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.283621 X +6.906
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -52201.441254 X +78005.752
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -11.763149 X +87.159
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.458530 X +1.376
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 9.140852 X +4.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189