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Question: People sometimes belong to different kinds of groups or associations. The list below contains different types of groups. For each type of group, please tick a box to say whether you have participated in the activities of this group in the past 12 months. - A church or other religious organisation
Choices: "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate" "I do not belong to such a group"
Data: % of "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa72.8%
2 Finland 65.9%
3 United States63.2%
4 Canada51.5%
5 Germany44.5%
6 Denmark42.6%
7 Philippines37.3%
8 New Zealand36.9%
9 Australia34.2%
10 Norway33.8%
11 Slovenia30.6%
12 Israel28.8%
13 United Kingdom28.7%
14 Austria28.4%
15 Switzerland27.7%
16 Chile25.5%
17 Brazil20.4%
18 Czech Republic17.9%
19 Italy16.6%
20 France15.1%
21 Spain12.6%
22 Japan9.9%
23 Hungary9.4%
24 Cyprus7.9%
25 Poland7.2%
26 Latvia6.8%
27 Russian Federation6.6%

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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.189315 X +6.324
Correlation coefficient (r)0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 41167.955742 X +28084.527
Correlation coefficient (r)0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.863587 X +80.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.588325 X +1.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4.420081 X +11.222
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022