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Question: Do you agree that religious leaders should not try to influence how people vote in elections?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany86.0%
2 France85.6%
3 Japan 85.3%
4 Italy81.4%
5 Australia81.0%
6 United Kingdom76.1%
7 Republic of Korea75.4%
8 Sweden74.1%
9 United States72.8%

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 = -2.178559 X +8.474
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -93000.090562 X +123635.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 17.680295 X +67.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.758208 X +0.864
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -35.448133 X +42.479
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088