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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile 91.3%
2 Poland81.0%
3 Portugal77.8%
4 United States77.4%
5 Ireland77.3%
6 Italy73.5%
7 Israel68.5%
8 Spain64.7%
9 Canada59.1%
10 Slovakia56.7%
11 New Zealand52.9%
12 Australia52.2%
13 Hungary51.6%
14 Austria51.3%
15 United Kingdom46.2%
16 Switzerland44.5%
17 Netherlands44.2%
18 Norway42.6%
19 Slovenia39.4%
20 Latvia38.9%
21 France38.8%
22 Denmark34.0%
23 Czech Republic30.5%
24 Germany28.5%
25 Sweden25.8%
26 Japan13.1%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.555490 X +7.029
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -10441.019729 X +53320.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -3.374725 X +82.310
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.007712 X +1.617
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -5.174777 X +12.390
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130