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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to meet the right kind of people?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile73.1%
2 Portugal67.9%
3 Turkiye62.9%
4 Republic of Korea61.3%
5 United States59.1%
6 Slovenia55.9%
7 Mexico55.6%
8 Poland53.1%
9 Italy52.2%
10 Ireland49.0%
11 Israel47.8%
12 Spain44.3%
13 Hungary43.6%
13 Slovakia43.6%
15 Switzerland 43.0%
16 New Zealand40.5%
17 United Kingdom40.4%
18 Germany37.0%
19 Latvia34.3%
20 Australia32.5%
21 Czech Republic31.4%
22 Austria30.7%
23 Netherlands29.8%
24 Denmark23.7%
25 Norway22.6%
26 Finland21.6%
27 France21.2%
28 Japan21.0%
29 Belgium18.8%
30 Sweden18.3%

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 = -2.047636 X +7.532
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -63169.169447 X +70839.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.160522 X +83.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.157141 X +1.668
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.212781 X +12.064
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045