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Question: How much confidence do you have in churches and religious organizations?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy72.1%
2 Australia68.8%
3 Canada65.6%
4 United States61.3%
5 Germany49.8%
6 France48.7%
7 Japan 27.1%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.617677 X +5.861
Correlation coefficient (r)0.632
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.399

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 27267.905249 X +35432.580
Correlation coefficient (r)0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.239598 X +84.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.092724 X +1.561
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.591472 X +19.157
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.591
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.349