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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to make friends?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States83.0%
2 Australia75.3%
3 United Kingdom72.7%
4 Sweden64.0%
5 Republic of Korea63.1%
6 Italy57.7%
7 Germany51.6%
8 France36.5%
9 Japan 29.6%

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 = 1.411672 X +5.900
Correlation coefficient (r)0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 43046.443189 X +23955.692
Correlation coefficient (r)0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.948305 X +86.030
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.588
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.346

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.042152 X +1.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.257763 X +14.364
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000