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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.5%
2 Italy64.9%
3 Canada47.0%
4 Australia44.8%
5 United Kingdom40.8%
6 Japan 32.0%
7 Germany30.6%
8 France29.3%
9 Sweden16.7%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.295712 X +6.983
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10266.596697 X +47028.000
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.369573 X +84.430
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.309443 X +1.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.735677 X +13.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047