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Question: How important is a person's religion for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States12.2%
2 Republic of Korea11.7%
3 United Kingdom8.8%
4 Germany7.3%
5 Italy5.4%
6 Australia5.2%
7 Sweden4.7%
8 France4.3%
9 Japan 3.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.867427 X +6.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 58984.237074 X +45317.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -40.159822 X +84.740
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.354899 X +1.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.365
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.133

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 95.131312 X +7.510
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233