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Question: How often do you visit a holy place for religious reasons such as going to shrine/temple/church/mosque? Please do not count attending regular religious services at your usual place of worship, if you have one.
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Data: % of "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month or more"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile59.1%
2 Portugal54.4%
3 Italy51.4%
4 Israel46.7%
5 Switzerland42.4%
6 Turkiye42.3%
7 Belgium 41.3%
8 Spain38.8%
9 Mexico33.9%
10 France32.8%
11 Australia30.0%
12 Republic of Korea29.3%
13 Slovenia29.2%
14 Finland28.7%
15 United States27.0%
16 Ireland26.8%
17 United Kingdom25.3%
18 Czech Republic24.0%
18 Japan24.0%
20 Hungary23.8%
21 Netherlands22.9%
22 Denmark22.6%
23 Sweden22.4%
24 Norway19.9%
25 New Zealand19.2%
26 Austria18.5%
27 Slovakia18.3%
28 Poland16.2%
29 Latvia10.0%
30 Germany7.7%

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 = -1.310134 X +7.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -29428.532401 X +53260.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.583995 X +79.222
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.475263 X +1.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -13.832399 X +16.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114