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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.3%
2 Italy54.5%
3 United Kingdom35.6%
4 Republic of Korea34.2%
5 Australia30.1%
6 Japan 29.7%
7 Germany29.2%
8 France24.2%
9 Sweden14.9%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.322394 X +6.853
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 12654.301820 X +44893.215
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.127945 X +84.853
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.217425 X +1.548
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.321672 X +15.413
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008