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Question: Do you think that churches and religious organizations in this country have too much power or too little power?
Choices: "Far too much power" "Too much power" "About the right amount of power" "Too little power" "Far too little power"
Data: % of "Far too much power" "Too much power"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel65.3%
2 Poland59.6%
3 Japan57.5%
4 Italy 47.9%
5 Slovenia47.6%
6 Germany46.5%
7 Ireland44.9%
8 Spain44.8%
9 Chile36.3%
10 Austria33.7%
11 Norway32.0%
12 Australia31.7%
13 United States30.7%
14 France29.8%
15 Slovakia28.6%
16 Canada28.4%
17 Portugal26.9%
18 Netherlands23.3%
19 Hungary23.2%
20 Switzerland22.7%
21 New Zealand18.6%
22 Denmark14.5%
23 Czech Republic13.3%
24 Latvia6.7%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.655784 X +7.018
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7067.021338 X +49099.454
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.485637 X +78.826
Correlation coefficient (r)0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.407670 X +1.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -8.963493 X +15.463
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142