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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States83.0%
2 New Zealand80.1%
3 Chile 79.6%
4 Australia75.3%
5 United Kingdom72.7%
6 Portugal72.5%
7 Switzerland72.3%
8 Slovenia66.4%
9 Mexico66.3%
10 Sweden64.0%
11 Republic of Korea63.1%
12 Ireland61.1%
13 Spain60.3%
14 Norway58.4%
15 Italy57.7%
16 Denmark56.4%
17 Poland55.1%
18 Netherlands53.2%
19 Finland53.1%
20 Germany51.6%
21 Slovakia48.9%
22 Turkiye48.5%
23 Israel46.0%
24 Czech Republic44.3%
25 Austria42.4%
26 Latvia41.7%
27 Hungary41.4%
28 France36.5%
29 Belgium32.5%
30 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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.608695 X +6.340
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 37403.440035 X +23440.135
Correlation coefficient (r)0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.537092 X +79.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.326338 X +1.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.365379 X +10.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003