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Question: Have you belonged to a church or other religious organization?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico89.9%
2 Denmark84.8%
3 Ireland75.7%
4 Austria72.0%
5 Finland68.2%
6 Poland64.1%
7 United States61.6%
8 Canada61.3%
9 Sweden60.5%
9 Switzerland 60.5%
11 Norway58.0%
12 Germany51.0%
13 Netherlands40.5%
14 Chile37.0%
15 Slovenia34.9%
16 Latvia34.5%
16 United Kingdom34.5%
18 Australia32.8%
19 New Zealand32.7%
20 Hungary30.1%
21 Portugal29.7%
22 Republic of Korea25.1%
23 Slovakia23.6%
24 France22.8%
25 Belgium22.5%
26 Israel21.5%
27 Czech Republic19.7%
28 Spain16.3%
29 Japan8.4%

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

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.029685 X +6.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 46007.918432 X +26496.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -3.072457 X +81.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.002058 X +1.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.255579 X +11.375
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021