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Question: About how often do you pray?
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month" "2-3 times a month" "Nearly every week" "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Data: % of "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy53.3%
2 Canada33.9%
3 Australia33.8%
4 Japan 28.2%
5 United States26.7%
6 France23.2%
7 Germany19.0%

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 = -0.843995 X +7.033
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -40711.650191 X +63441.730
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.571009 X +80.319
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.203624 X +1.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.673
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.453

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -21.837345 X +19.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.793
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.629