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Question: Do you think that churches and religious organizations in this country have too much power or too little power?
Choices: "Far too much power" "Too much power" "About the right amount of power" "Too little power" "Far too little power"
Data: % of "Far too much power" "Too much power"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic75.8%
2 Cyprus75.1%
3 Poland61.2%
4 Republic of Korea60.9%
5 Croatia57.3%
6 Italy57.1%
7 Taiwan55.0%
8 Spain54.1%
9 Israel53.5%
10 Turkiye49.1%
11 Slovenia48.0%
12 Chile46.7%
13 Japan46.6%
14 Mexico44.5%
15 Australia44.2%
16 Ireland41.9%
17 Austria41.4%
18 Belgium40.4%
19 Germany37.9%
20 United Kingdom37.8%
21 Norway36.1%
21 Venezuela36.1%
23 Slovakia34.7%
24 Sri Lanka34.1%
25 Netherlands33.5%
26 United States32.7%
27 Ukraine32.6%
28 Finland 30.8%
29 Portugal30.6%
30 Hungary30.3%
31 Uruguay30.0%
32 France27.9%
33 Denmark26.4%
34 Tanzania26.3%
35 Sweden25.1%
36 Philippines24.2%
37 New Zealand23.3%
38 Czech Republic22.3%
39 Switzerland22.2%
40 Russian Federation21.4%
41 Kenya21.1%
42 South Africa19.6%
43 Indonesia18.2%
44 Latvia10.9%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 0.264200 X +6.201
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -1279.022688 X +34218.216
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 11.923564 X +73.655
Correlation coefficient (r)0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -1.088671 X +2.203
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -8.985729 X +15.631
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042